Listed Building: (467903)

WEYMOUTH SY6778NE ST MARY STREET 873-1/23/311 (West side) 14/06/74 No.60 GV II Small house in row, with shop. Some C17 fabric, C18 front, modified in C19. Painted Flemish bond brickwork front, some rubble in rear walls, asbestos-cement slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 2 windows; an early roof-light above 2 sashes, one has a glazing-bar upper sash with inserted louvres in the abbreviated lower sash, the other is a 4-pane, both of these in flush boxes. A C20 shop front and door cut into and below the adjoining property, No.59 (qv), slightly, with a supporting cast-iron column within, and to the right is an arched opening to the throughway. At the rear, over the throughway, is a rubble wall with remains of a casement with splayed stone surround. A small parallel range to gables, and a swept-down roof to a brick extension. INTERIOR not inspected. A remnant from one of the earliest Melcombe Regis houses, with low ceiling heights, and a very modest front, including an opening to a throughway, right. Despite changes to the main elevation, this retains interest in the street because of its early provenance. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 351). Listing NGR: SY6793878829

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