Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6685 CHURCH STREET, Upwey
873-1/5/544 (West side)
12/12/53 Mill House, with attached bridge and
boundary railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET, Upwey
(West side)
Mill House)
GV II
Detached house. C18, some reconstruction and extension in the
early C19. Squared and coursed stone front, rendered gables
and back, brick stacks, slate roof, but low wings with tile
roofs to course of stone slate at the eaves.
PLAN: a main central block with high mansard roof to raised
coped verges and C18 brick gable stacks; to the left is a low
extension, and to the right a 2-storey extension, then a low
wing, all rising on a rendered plinth directly from the stream
running past, and approached by a bridge.
EXTERIOR: main block is in 2 storeys with attics, 3 windows; a
central 12-pane sash raked dormer above 12-pane sashes at
ground and first floors, with central 6-panel door under a
painted fanlight in pilaster doorcase to open pediment on
brackets.
Wing to left has 3-light casement, and its end gable, with
small brick stack, has large 4-light sash. To right the
2-storey extension has 12-pane sashes in deep reveals, and, at
ground floor, a 3-light casement with early leading.
Wing beyond had a wide full-height opening, now blocked, and a
half-hipped gable end.
The back of the main block, directly facing the Mill (qv), has
2 wide-spaced 12-pane sash raked dormers above a central first
floor sash, and at ground floor are wide-spaced 12-pane sashes
with a further sash to the right of the central 6-panel door,
all under the remains of a verandah, with a 1m wide stone
pavement drained to a full-width stone gutter. To the left is
a small eaves light, a broad 6-pane at ground floor, and on
the return a 4-pane sash. The lower unit has various lights
and a rooflight. The wing to the right has a door and one
light.
INTERIOR: not accessible, but the ground-floor windows retain
original shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: across the full width of the front, at
the rear of the pavement, is a run of cast-iron railings on a
weathered stone coping, with 3 bays each side of the centre in
2 horizontal rails, and standards with simple finials. Beyond
the rails a stone wall to crenellated top continues, right to
a second bridge, and left to a doorway. At the centre the
rails return either side of the door, on a low parapet to a
bridge in a single very flat arch with stone slab paving.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 369).
Listing NGR: SY6627185078
