Listed Building: MILTON ARMS RESTAURANT (467877)

WEYMOUTH SY6878NW ST ALBAN STREET 873-1/24/277 (North side) 14/06/74 No.21 Milton Arms Restaurant (Formerly Listed as: ST ALBAN'S STREET (North side) No.21) GV II House, now restaurant. Late C16 or early C17, modified C20. Squared and coursed Portland stone, some rendering to front, and rear range in light timber-framing with brick nogging, asbestos-cement slate roof. PLAN: 2-room plan, heated to left; rear range to left also with heating, sharing flue, and shallow gabled range to left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows; C19 two-light casements at first floor above 3-light replacement stone-mullioned casements at ground floor with central doorway in 4-centred arch with stopped chamfer surround. The upper half of this frontage retains rendering, but the stonework is exposed below. 2 rooflights, and a brick stack to the left. The return, in New Street, has a gabled end with 2-light inserted casement, and, to the left, a lower gabled range with framed upper part over rubble ground floor. To the left is an early bay window in 1:3:1 lights to a hipped roof. The rear gable is boarded. A second gable at the far end of the building is in brickwork over a rendered wall. INTERIOR: has been considerably modified, but it retains a wide bressumer fire in the left-hand half, with stone cheeks and deep wood bressumer; behind this, in the rear range, and at right angles to it a second fireplace, also with stopped stone cheeks. Various beams with a small chamfer. The staircase is rear right, in straight flight to the first floor which has mainly replacement timbers, but a further fireplace above that at ground floor, with a deep cambered bressumer. The rear range, with modern kitchen, has a square panel timber-framed partition, and a central beam at first floor. A tight spiral staircase within the main block gives to the attic with 3-bay roof, without collars, but with mostly original principals, including 2 purlins. A rare survival from the period, with characteristically low ceiling heights. Referred to as Milton House in RCHME. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 350). Listing NGR: SY6802778899

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