Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6684 CHURCH STREET, Upwey
873-1/6/561 (East side)
14/06/74 No.10
Eastbrook House
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET, Upwey
(East side)
Eastbrook House)

GV II

Detached house in large garden. Mid C19. Rock-faced coursed
limestone with ashlar dressings, slate roof.
An Italianate villa set back from the street, with low-pitched
hipped front range and gabled parallel rear range.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; front to Church Street is in 4 bays, the
third of which is a porch brought forward, with gabled top.
First floor has 4-pane sashes, but to porch an arched sash in
moulded architrave. Ground floor has large 6-pane sashes,
possibly with 12-panes originally, in plat band eared
architraves with thin cornice. 6-panelled door under a plain
fanlight has a Gibbsian surround. Quoins are rusticated, plain
sill band to first floor, and deep eaves bracketed to porch
gable.
To the left the rear range projects. There are 4 slender ridge
stacks and a rear eaves stack. The shorter S front, similarly
detailed, has projecting gable to the right, with paired
arched lights under flush relieving arch, and a flat-roofed
square bay with tripartite sash in plain channelled pilasters
and slender Doric mullions under a frieze with cornice.
To left are plain sashes at first floor over deep 2-light
casements with transom, running down to floor level.
East wall contains various sashes and lights, low projecting
hipped stair turret and full-height gabled projecting unit to
right.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A handsome house, not altered externally, on an important
corner site.

Listing NGR: SY6669484359

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428547

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Recommended Books

• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair