Monument record MDO45036 - The Old Room, Trinity Street, Weymouth

A house thought to have been built in the late sixteenth century. In the eighteenth century it was used as an assembly rooms (Delamotte's Public Rooms), and later a public house.

The Old Room Inn. House, c 1600 used in the C 18 as "Delamatter Public Rooms", now an inn. <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 345 (Monograph). SDO149.

'(87) The Old Rooms, immediately next S. of the above, is of two storeys; the roof is tiled and has a verge of stone slates. The building dates from the late 16th century when it may have formed a dwelling house, although in the 18th century it appears to have been used as assembly rooms; the back of the house originally overlooked the Cove.

The front elevation is symmetrical with a central two-storeyed porch between two pairs of six-light mullioned windows; the ground-floor windows have been altered by the insertion of additional doorways, and the porch by the insertion in the 18th century of a doorway on the N. side with segmental head, moulded architrave and keystone. The original doorway has a flat head and chamfered jambs, and the windows have moulded labels. The porch has a gable to the street but the upper part has been rebuilt.

The ground-floor plan (p. 345) provides for two rooms divided by a through passage with timber-framed partition walls. The stairs are in the adjacent property, their original position is unknown. One room has an original fireplace with a moulded four-centred head. A carved timber fireplace surround, said to have come from the first floor of the Old Rooms, is now in Warmwell House (Warmwell 2).'

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 456 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1988 (Map). SWX1197.

(SY 6805 7859) The Old Room [NAT]

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF112250 (Index). SDO14738.

Weymouth 210

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 868043 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2022 4:06PM