Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6880SW DORCHESTER ROAD
873-1/16/71 (East side)
Weymouth Technical College

II

Technical college. c1870. By Crickmay and Sons. Yellow and red
brick, some stone banding, slate roof.
PLAN: a complex building, with parallel ranges facing
Dorchester Road, having a narrow gabled range stepped forward
to the left, and a broader range stepped forward to the right
with a porch rising to a high turret in the internal angle.
This end range is L-plan, with a gabled return at the back.
EXTERIOR: detailing is broadly in Ruskinian Gothic, with
arched openings on 4-pane sashes, with alternating red and
yellow brick voussoirs. The gable to the left is coped, with
kneelers, over an oculus and 3-storey canted bay with brick
mullions.
The set back main unit has 4 windows, the 2 outer being
smaller than the central 2; to the left is a one-storey porch
with round-arched entry, and to the right a portico with
arched entries to front and side, rising to a steep slated
roof swept out at the bottom, with lucarnes. The gable to the
right is coped, with kneelers, and with saddle and finial
above an oculus, a 2-light window, and a square bay with
balcony to pierced stone balustrade. This has some Ruskinian
carving to capitals and detail.
The return has 4 linked gables to end kneelers over arched
lights at first and second floors; C20 work is added at the
ground floor. To the right, brought forward, is a wide
haunched gable with arched lights to moulded stone sill bands;
an escape stair has been attached to the end bay.
The rear has various openings with sashes, and includes a
formerly open 4-bay ground floor unit, with a stone lintel
carried on cast-iron columns; this has been filled and glazed.
Above are 4 windows at each level under a wide gable.
The rear range is hipped at the N end, and the smaller cross
wing is half-hipped at the rear, over triple arched lights.
At the time of survey the building was only partly in use,
with many windows temporarily blocked.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
It is a characteristic example of the Crickmay office,
responding to the stylistic fashions of the time.

Listing NGR: SY6808080276

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562017

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