Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6880SW DORCHESTER ROAD
873-1/16/72 (East side)
12/12/53 No.22
Wellington House
(Formerly Listed as:
DORCHESTER ROAD
(North East side)
No.22)

II

Detached house, now offices. c1830-1840. Rendered, slate
hipped roof. A symmetrical villa in Tudor style, set well back
from the road, having a central square block with 2-storey
porch, and lower, set-back wings.
2 storeys, the main block 1+1+1 windows, 2-light small-pane
casements with transom, all late C20 replacements, under
labels with dropped ends; at first floor the centre has 2
small lancets with 4-centred heads, above C20 doors in a
4-centred head. There is also a lancet, with deep sloping sill
at each level on the returns to the projecting porch.
Hipped 1-storey wings have a 2-light casement with label, as
the main block. There are plinth, moulded mid string, cornice,
blocking and parapet, but with crenellations, raised at the
centre, to the porch. Each side has a stone stack with 4
octagonal shafts, and the right side has a large C20 dormer
window.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SY6800780383

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562001

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2