Description

WEYMOUTH

SY68NE CHURCH STREET, Upwey
873-1/1/559 (West side)
14/06/74 Batchfoot Retirement Home, including
wall and terrace
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET, Upwey
(West side)
Batchfoot House)

II

Rectory, later hotel, now retirement home. 1812. Rubble,
rendered to front only, slate roof.
PLAN: a long rectangular block with entry and main staircase
at the SW end, and double-banked rooms to continuous central
corridor; the terrace to the centre, front, is a late C20
addition.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and basement, 5-windowed front;
12-pane sashes to first floor above deep 15-pane sashes to
ground floor, with stone sills at floor level. In the
basement, centrally, is a 3-light stone hollow-mould mullion
casement, with diagonal saddle bars.
The entrance end has a large oculus with glazing bars above
two 12-pane sashes, one of these blind and a C20 door with
fanlight in an arched opening.
The far gable has an oculus above two 12-pane sashes at ground
and first floors, one of these painted on at each level; the
basement has a central C19 flush panel door flanked by a
12-pane sash, left, and a C20 part-glazed door, right. In the
rubble walls openings have flush dressed surrounds.
Rear has 6 small-pane 2-light casements under haunched brick
segmental heads, but with recessed doubled opening ground
floor, centre, and the basement is part-concealed by a
below-ground access passage. Large C20 flat-roofed dormer with
two 3-light casements. 2 ridge and 2 gable stacks, all
rendered, and with skirt and heavy capping. Plain string
course, rendered on the main front, returns at the gable ends.
The roof has a deep flat eaves with a series of small
brackets, including the gable verges.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has cornice and ceiling rose, with a
simple quarter-landing staircase. There are 2 further dogleg
staircases off the central corridor, on north side; these also
descend to the basement. Some cornices remain, doors generally
modified to meet fire regulations, but original plank doors
remain in the basement. In the attics, now sub-divided, but
probably originally one open space, are 2 thick party walls

each with wide opening to a pointed arch; at E gable the
oculus is contained in similar sunk pointed arch, not
expressed externally.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at rear of building there was formerly a
stable block of which one coursed stone wall approx 4m long
remains, with concrete parapet, and entrance to the sunk
external passageway; behind this wall a terrace has been
created by backfill. Terrace of large slate slabs, approx 3m
deep, extends across the E end at basement level, here at
ground level because of the fall in level across the site.
An interesting and unusually planned rectory, well maintained,
with minimal loss resulting from changes of use.

Listing NGR: SY6595085429

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561968

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