6, Belle Vue

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW BELLE VUE 873-1/24/25 (South side) 14/06/74 No.6

GV II

House in row. Late C18, altered in mid C19 and later. Rendered, some brickwork to rear, slate roof. A 2-room plan in which the central door originally led to the right-hand room direct, but now with partition; the back has been extended and modified. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. Two C20 dormers with casements above a wide canted 2-storey bay with 8:12:8-pane sashes, with a cornice and fine fluted architrave. The first floor has a blind central light with keystone, and to the right is a 12-pane sash at each level, also with keystones. The central 6-panel door has a vertical central bead (which on the back of the door is in bead and reel), in an Adamesque doorcase, including urn decorations said to be in pewter. A small Portland stone plinth, blocking course but no parapet. To the right is a lofty stack in Broadmayne brick. The rear roof slope has been lifted, and is at a lower pitch than the front, and there are C20 additions in brick. INTERIOR: has a dogleg stair transversely behind the right-hand room, with solid string, stick balusters, and moulded handrail. The 2 main rooms have small moulded cornices, doors are simplified 'carpenter's' 4-panel fielded, and the fireplaces are mid to late C19. At the top floor, flanking the staircase, is a plank and muntin partition, probably of the C18. There are C20 roof-lights over the stair and one back room. One first-floor fire surround has good Victorian glazed tile cheeks. This seems to have been an earlier property than most extant in the street, but was substantially modified in the C19. (RCHME: Dorset: South-East: London: 1970-: 346).

Listing NGR: SY6808278790