Weston Acres, Including Terrace Wall

Weston Acres is a large house, originally built as a private residence and later adapted for use by the Seafarer's Society. The main body of the house dates to 1906, with a north entrance front added in 1915 by Sydney Tatchell FRIBA. Later 20th-century wings to the east and west are not considered to be of significant architectural merit. The house is built in an Arts and Crafts style, constructed with pebbledash render, brick quoins on a brick plinth, sandstone mullioned windows, tiled roofs, hooped gutter brackets, and brick chimneystacks. It is a two-story building with an irregular arrangement of windows. The overall plan is roughly in the shape of a ‘1’.

The south or garden front is the most visually striking, with two stories and eight windows. The bay to the left projects under a gable, featuring a Venetian window on the first floor and a five-light bay window on the ground floor. To the right are a four-light bay, a diagonally placed external chimneystack, and a further four-light bay. Adjacent to this is a pair of single mullioned windows, followed by a projecting gable with tile decoration and a seven-light bay on each floor. The penultimate bay has a single mullioned window, and the extreme right bay has a triple window on the first floor, with a cambered half-glazed door flanked by sidelights. A set-back two-story wing to the right originally included a loggia with round-headed arches on the ground floor. A 1915 addition on this wing replaced the arches with solid infill. The west side features two and one windows, followed by a flat-roofed extension, misleadingly dated 1906, with a four-light window to the first floor and a three-light window to the ground floor. The north or entrance front, dating from 1915, has four windows, the central section beneath a pyramidal roof with a weathervane. A projecting porch, originally having sandstone brackets and an arched doorcase (now partially concealed by a late 20th-century wood and glazed structure), leads to a tall staircase and a five-light window on the first floor and a three-light window on the ground floor to the left. Other ancillary buildings, including former kitchens and stabling, are one or two stories in height with mullioned windows.

Attached to the main house is a terrace wall constructed of red brick, approximately 5 feet in height, reducing to 3 feet, and punctuated by six square brick piers with stone bat finials.

The design was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1916 and was featured in various building magazines of that period.