Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6685 CHURCH STREET, Upwey
873-1/5/577 (East side)
12/12/53 No.162
Brook House

GV II

Detached house. C17 and mostly mid C18. Flemish bond brickwork
street front, rubble or course rubble elsewhere, slate roof.
PLAN: a symmetrical central staircase hall front unit, with 2
deep gabled wings; that to the left of the C18, and to the
right, C17, part of the earlier house on the site.
EXTERIOR: storeys and attic, 3 windows; 3 flat-roofed dormers
with 2-light small-pane casements, moulded cornice and returns
over slate cheeks, above 12-pane sashes in plat band
architraves with small projecting keystone.
Central 6-panel part-glazed door in Doric half-columns with
fluted necking under frieze and cornice, all on 1+4 stone
steps with nosings. Alternating flush stone quoins, slight
cornice, rendered blocking course and coping.
Left return gable has a 12-pane sash in surround above a C20
casement, and in the lower projecting wing are 2-light
casements. The rear gable and the right return are plain
rubble. The early wing, with a brick stack, has a steeply
pitched roof, and is separated from the later wing by a narrow
courtyard.
INTERIOR: considerably modified, some of the features being in
C18 style. The entrance hall on a stone floor has trompe
l'oeil painted fielded panelling, and the dogleg stair has
thin turned balusters and a polished handrail. There are
various 6-panel doors. The flanking rooms have window
shutters, and the windows are set to deep, full-height
recesses; the right room has two C20 painted metal columns
inserted to modify its proportions. Fireplaces said to be
insertions, and dentil cornices are late C20. The kitchen, in
the C17 wing, has rough transverse beam, with stopped
chamfers.
An interesting case of the fashionable use of brick for the
main facade in a predominantly stone building area.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 369).

Listing NGR: SY6617685182

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561961

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)