Listed Building: MILL HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BRIDGE AND BOUNDARY RAILINGS (467394)

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

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