Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6779SE GREAT GEORGE STREET
873-1/20/173 (West side)
Nos.26 AND 27

II

Pair of houses in row. Mid to late C19. Flemish bond
brickwork, slate roof.
3 storeys, each 2 windows, all glazing-bar sashes in painted
brick alternating quoins, with stone key and stone sills, with
sill band to first floor; the first- and second-floor windows
are 12-pane to straight flush lintels and the ground floor has
wider 16-pane to cambered lintels with triple keystone. To the
left of No.26 is a wide 6-panel door and moulded transom under
a plain light to basket-handle head, on alternating V-joint
jambs, and in bay 3 is a smaller version, with painted jambs,
to No.27. There a painted stone plinth, quoins to the left end
only, painted to the upper 2 floors, a thin flush band above
the second-floor windows, moulded stone cornice, blocking
course and coped parapet. The roof and stacks are not visible.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A handsome pair, characteristic of mid Victorian practice, and
unaltered in the street front.

Listing NGR: SY6793279307

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613664

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