Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW EAST STREET
873-1/24/87 (East side)
18/06/70 Nos.5 AND 5A
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST STREET
(East side)
Nos.5, 5A AND 6)

GV II

Includes: No.1B ST ALBAN STREET.
House, with shop, on corner site, returning to 1B, St Alban
Street. Late C18 or early C19. Painted brickwork, tiled
mansard roofs.
A principal frontage to St Alban Street has a broad return
gable and continuous slightly lower mansard-roofed range in
East Street.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement. The main front is in
2 windows, with early 6-pane sash raking dormers above a
12-pane to flush moulded box and an 8:12:8-pane bold canted
oriel, with panelled skirt and flat base, to a moulded
entablature. Ground floor has a 12-pane sash over a light at
pavement level, and a shop front with modified bows to a
central door on 4 concrete steps, under a transom and flat
arched radial fanlight, in pilastered reveals, flanked by
fluted pilasters; this overlays an earlier shop front, and the
full-width dentiled cornice remains, cut off at the bows,
carried on 5 narrow fluted Doric pilasters to very high
pedestals, and a plinth. A stack to each gable.
The return frontage has a plain gable, with a small basement
light to brick voussoirs, then, immediately to the right is a
12-pane sash in flush moulded box, above a 6-panel door with
deep square transom light, in deep reveals on 3 stone steps,
and in a moulded architrave. No.5A, continuing right, has a
6-pane sash raking dormer above a 12-pane to moulded box, and
a C19 shop front with fascia and consoles, with a central
glazed door set back in deep returns.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
No.5A was listed on 8.3.73.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 350).

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW ST ALBAN STREET
873-1/24/87 (South side)
18/06/70 No.1B

GV II

See under: Nos.5 AND 5A EAST STREET.

Listing NGR: SY6806178882

Selected Sources

• Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 350

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