Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6677NW ALL SAINTS' ROAD, Wyke Regis
873-1/29/616 (West side)
12/12/53 Manor Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
ALL SAINTS' ROAD, Wyke Regis
Wyke Manor Farmhouse)

II

Detached house, formerly farmhouse. Late C16 and early C17,
with alterations early C19. Large square Portland stone block
with ashlar dressings, slate roof.
PLAN: a 2-part building with the earlier, lower unit to the
left, in single-room depth with gable entry in the fireplace
wall, and small rear room; the mid C17 range, to the right, on
a slightly larger scale, with double-room depth, gable
fireplace, and entry to cross passage to the left. The rear
room is separately roofed, with a valley gutter.
EXTERIOR: the early range is one storey with attic, 1 window;
a flat-roofed 12-pane sash dormer above a 4-light stone
recessed hollow-mould mullion casement, with drip-course,
which continues to the right, and returns to the later
building. In the left gable is an entrance doorway (under
reconstruction at the time of survey), and a small stack.
The range to the right is in 2 storeys, 2 windows, with a
small 6-pane casement in chamfered surround, first floor left,
and a full-height canted C19 bay with 8:12:8-pane sash and
cornice at each level, and rendered skirts. The 6-panel flush
door has a simple pilaster doorcase. The drip-mould, continued
from the earlier range, has been cut out above the door, and
at the later bay window, but otherwise continues full width,
returning to the large gable stack to the right. A stone eaves
mould is stopped to a short return to the left, and to the
stack, right, and the gables have saddle-back copings on bold
shaped kneelers.
The right gable, built in to the slope, has a very large stone
stack, stepped out on large dressed stone corbels each side
above 2-light stone hollow-chamfer mullioned casements,
extended to the right as a parapet, with small slits to a
valley gutter outlet.
The rear wall, in 2 storeys, has 3 replacement sashes at each
level, and central doorway.
INTERIOR: the central entrance, formerly a through-way, has
stone flooring, and a C19 straight-flight stair with stick
balustrade returning to the front, with landing in parallel.
The main parlour, to right, which now extends through to the

rear range, has a large stone fireplace with 4-centred moulded
arch, the central stone badly dropped, on moulded jambs with
stops. To the right, the jamb has been cut out, and a later
small fireplace inserted, but the intention is to replace this
in the reconstruction. A large square lateral beam, and second
beam carried over the bay window; both were formerly lathed
and plastered. Remains of C17 panelling.
At a slightly lower level to the left of the entry is the
kitchen, possibly the parlour of the first house, with a large
reconstructed open fireplace, and an original 9-compartment
ceiling with deep chamfered beams; the ceiling stops short
from the fireplace wall by approx 0.9m, and the lateral beam
to the right is absorbed in the wall. The joists to the
ceiling are set flush with the extrados of the beams, and run
in alternate directions in the compartments. The roofs have
been substantially restructured, but in the later range, in 2
large bays, some principal members remain.
This is the most substantial remaining secular building dating
from before the C18 in this early village settlement. The
former holding lies immediately to the W of All Saints'
Church, Portland Road (qv).
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 372).

Listing NGR: SY6609777797

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599850

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