ASHTON HOUSE

ASHTON HOUSE, 4, WYKE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147999
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1970
List Entry Name:: ASHTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ASHTON HOUSE, 4, WYKE ROAD

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Date:: 2003-07-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147999
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: ASHTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ASHTON HOUSE, 4, WYKE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ASHTON HOUSE, 4, WYKE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weymouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 67327 78421

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6778SW WYKE ROAD 873-1/26/413 (North side) 18/06/70 No.4 Ashton House (Formerly Listed as: WYKE ROAD Nos.4 AND 6)

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House in short row, formerly 2 dwellings. 1820-1840. Smooth rendered, slate roof. A villa in Greek Revival style, with 4-bay central block, stepped-back bay at each end, and lower range to the right; the entrance and staircase are to the right, at the junction between the two main ranges. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, but developing full 4 storeys at the rear, as the site slopes steeply away from the road. Windows mainly sashes, the central block has two 12-pane and two 4-pane to the eaves, above deep 15-pane taken to floor at first floor, and with a full-width balcony, the wrought-iron railing returned at the ends. At ground floor is one 16-pane and one plain sash, with 3-light casements to the basement, one of these enclosed in a contemporary cast-iron railing. The set-back bay to the left has plain sashes and a door. The lower range has a blind window. The bold portico, on 5 Portland stone steps with nosings, has paired fluted Doric columns in antis, and full column responds to the pair of 4-panel doors, and a full entablature, to a flat roof. The main hipped roof to deep plain eaves has a central ridge stack, and there are further stacks to the left gable end, and to the rear eaves of the low range, which has a form of parapet to the front. A high plinth, to the level of the portico steps, a first floor moulded band, plain second floor band, and moulded band to the set-backs The right gable has a low-pitched closed pediment, above two 12-pane sashes at each level, and a basement entry hatch in the deep plinth, to the right. The back includes 4 wide-spaced sashes at eaves level above two 2-storey oriels, flanked by long 24-pane staircase windows, and the lower range has a 15-pane above a blind light and a 16-pane sash. INTERIOR: partly inspected. Original 6-panel doors in moulded architraves generally remain, but fireplaces have been removed from the principal rooms. Opposite the portico is a fine full-height geometrical staircase, rising in a semicircular

well with deep niches; the open strings have scrolled tread-ends, and the stick balustrade has a wreathed mahogany handrail; the second staircase was not seen. The basement has 3 wide brick-vaulted compartments on cobble floors to the front, with a transverse passage at the rear ceiled with stone carried on a series of close-set (0.15m) iron camber bars, and incorporating small set-in solid glass bullseye pavement lights, usually in groups of 3 to each 1m along the passage. The house, now in institutional use, is the most impressive of a group, comprising Nos 4 and 8-14 (qqv), built as Belfield Terrace, on the principal road from Melcombe Regis to Wyke Regis. The unusual treatment of the cellar ceiling is not explained. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 346).

Listing NGR: SY6732778421

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Legacy System number:: 468036
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 346

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.