Former Coopers Shop

WEYMOUTH

SY6878SW SPRING ROAD 873-1/28/264 (West side) Former Coopers' shop

GV II

Includes: Former Coopers' shop DEVENISH SQUARE. Coopers' shop, now store or workshop, attached to former brewery range. Dated 1869. Rubble, brickwork, horizontal boarding on framing, concrete tile roof. An L-shaped single-storey building on a triangular site immediately S of Brewers Quay (qv); the base of a former stack remains on the E side. Facing Brewers Quay the front is in rubble with brick dressings and rounded outer corners, with a central loading door in a gabled half-dormer above C20 doors. The Spring Road front is in rubble with brick dressings, with one small eaves stack, and a large square stack podium in brick, with a stone capping to the circular base, and with saw-tooth brick dentils. The E front has the date, 1869, and the N front D & Co (Devenish). The inner walls are framed with slender cast-iron columns; the N range is in 6 bays, with 9-pane fixed casements above boarding, and doors to bays 1 & 4. The E range, in 5 bays, is similar, and with a series of C20 roof lights. The outer gable is in rubble with boarding to the gable and a pair of full-height wide plank doors. The roof structure is C19 king post trusses. Forms an integral part of an outstanding group of brewery buildings in the Hope Square area.

Listing NGR: SY6806478468