Listed Building: THE GLOBE INN (467505)

WEYMOUTH SY6878NW EAST STREET 873-1/24/94 (West side) No.24 The Globe Inn GV II Hotel. c1900. Flemish bond brickwork with some stone dressings, slate roof. PLAN: almost square in plan, with attached service yard to the left. The broad gabled roof faces East Street, and the return to Mitchell Street has an eaves roof with a bold central gable, in late Queen Anne style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. East Street front has a central unit embracing a 2-light small-pane casement each side of a strapwork plaster panel inscribed 'The Globe Inn' to a moulded sill band, under a coved head to the projecting gable with 2 ranges of arched decorative framing with plaster infill, and a barge-board with dentils. At first floor there is a canted oriel with 8:12:8-pane sash with pilaster mullions to moulded cornice and on a deep skirt; to the right is a 6-pane light in pilasters, under a curved moulded pediment. Flush stone quoins alternate with brickwork at each corner. Ground floor has a full-width bold modillion cornice over a deep fascia bearing 'The Globe Inn' in raised lettering, above a wide paired plate-glass window with a transom, in pilasters and to a moulded sill, and an oculus in decorative scrollwork. To the left is a lofty part-glazed door under a plain fanlight, and in pilasters, on 2 stone steps. To the right is an open arch with panelled pilasters, segmental head and keystone, with doors set back in the re-entrant. Above the door to the left a high coped wall sweeps down and drops to a lower straight-topped yard wall containing a plank door with a flush chamfered lintel; the wall terminates in a brick pier to the left. The return to the left is plain, with various small and large 4-pane sashes, and a tall brick stack at the eaves, with a moulded capping above arcuated frieze in flush stonework. A slated lean-to returns to a small carriage house across the yard from the boundary wall. The front to Mitchell Street is detailed as the main front, with an off-centre wide gable above two 2-light small-pane casements to a continuous sill band. The gable above is flush, but with timber and plaster embellishment. At first floor is a canted oriel as to East Street, and a 12-pane sash in reveals, with brick voussoirs and a stooled stone sill. Ground floor is similar to the East Street front, with the arch to recessed doors, a 2-light casement with transom, a decorative plaster panel with 'Globe Inn', and a part-glazed door under a flat fanlight. To the right of the front gable is a stack detailed as the other. The right-hand gable is raised and coped, with some slatehanging. INTERIOR: altered to ground floor. Included for its townscape value and the quality of its external detail and design. Listing NGR: SY6804078755

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