Listed Building record MDO12553 - Shelby House, 14 Coombe Street, Lyme Regis

Early nineteenth century front. Three storeys, slate gabled roof with a roughcast front. To left hand on ground floor an unusual early nineteenth century shop front consisting of double recessed bow window set in recession behind reeded frame.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 147 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are of modern tiles or slates. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (17) House, No. 14, 70 yards N.W. of (16), has an early 19th-century shop-front consisting of two bowwindows of unusual shape and a doorway in the centre, all set back behind the building-line within a deep recess framed by reeded architraves and bressumer with reeded fascia (fig. p. 148).’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449824 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 11:35AM