46, East Street

No. 46, East Street is a house dated 1880, likely incorporating an earlier property. It is located in Weymouth, and represents a late infill building, continuing the bay articulation characteristic of the street. The building is constructed of painted brickwork and has a wide-span slate gable roof.

The exterior is three storeys high, plus an attic and basement, and is one window wide. A large, gabled dormer window features a three-light casement with a transom, brought forward slightly on brackets, and beneath a decorative open-work tympanum with dentilled barge-board and a dropped finial. At the second floor, a broad arch with alternating-colour voussoirs contains a pair of glazed doors with flanking lights, a transom light, and a tympanum with fish-tail tiles. To the right is a plain sash window, all set under a deep, full-width balcony with turned wood balusters and newels with ball finials, on a moulded base carried on curved brackets. Centred beneath the balcony is a three-storey square bay, with three lights at the first floor and two arched lights to the ground floor. The basement has paired two-light windows with transoms at pavement level. The skirt of the bay features decorative glazed tiles at ground and first floor. A flush six-panel door, accessed by seven plus one stone steps with nosings flanked by a simple wrought-iron rail, leads to a deep lobby with an inner glazed door with margin panes and a deep square transom light. A small gabled porch with a glazed door is located to the left of the bay. Flanking the bay at the first floor on the main wall are square faience decorative panels displaying "FA" and "1880". The eaves gutter is stopped to deep shaped brackets, with a very deep but narrow brick stack with twelve pots to the left gable. The right gable is partly slate-hung.

The rear elevation has a plain slate roof swept down over a projecting stair turret with sashes on a splay. To its left are tall sashes with unusual horizontal margin panes. A projecting three-storey gabled range is constructed of English garden wall brickwork, with a large gable stack and a corrugated asbestos-cement roof.

The interior was not inspected. The building is externally unaltered and represents a characteristic example of the stylistic experiments of the period, making a fitting termination to the west side of East Street and visible from the Esplanade.