9, St Alban Street

This is a house with a shop, built in the early 19th century on the corner of St Albans Street and Maiden Street in Weymouth. It was originally built with the adjacent property at No. 8, sharing a broad gable end. The front elevation facing St Albans Street is rendered with a slate mansard roof. The front is two windows wide, with two raking dormers in the attic; one has a small-pane two-light casement which appears to overlap with No. 8, and the other is temporarily blocked. The first floor has a twelve-pane sash window set within a moulded box, and a prominent canted oriel window with an eight-by-twelve-by-eight-pane sash window. The ground floor features a plate-glass display window to the left, set within a pilaster doorcase, and a fine 19th-century shop front that extends to the right gable. The shop front has a shallow fascia with a moulded cornice, covering a wide bow with very slender cast-iron colonnette mullions to the haunched heads, above a shallow stall-riser. This design is repeated exactly on the front facing Maiden Street. The corner between the two streets has the original glazed front door, set under a transom light with a basket-handle head within a pilaster case, and is accessed by a single step. The broad gable end return has a blind light above the display window and, to the right, a small four-pane sash window to the attic, and twelve-pane sash windows to the ground and first floors. A lower wing with a mansard roof has two windows; a two-light casement dormer above two twelve-pane sashes on the first floor, and a wide panelled late 19th-century door and a modified twelve-pane sash window on the ground floor. A stack is positioned to the right. The interior has not been inspected.