Number 2 With Boundary Wall And Gate Piers

This is a detached villa dating from the early 19th century. It is situated on Old Castle Road in Weymouth, and retains a boundary wall and gate piers. The main part of the house is tall and narrow, facing the street, with a lower service wing attached to and set back to the left. The front of the main range is three stories high. At the second floor are two 16-pane sash windows in deep reveals. Above them is a two-story central bow with eight, twelve, and eight-pane sashes, topped by a dentil cornice. The ground floor is enclosed by a late 19th-century glazed verandah, built on a low brick panelled wall. This verandah incorporates a contemporary glazed door with margin panes to the left, and a similar door, also with margin panes, side-lights, and a transom light, is located in the original wall plane. The verandah roof continues over a rubble stone wall, returning to the left gable end. This gable end features a plain sash window at first and second floors, and a two-light small-pane casement at the first floor, with a glazed verandah front. The street front has a moulded stone cornice and blocking course, with the parapet returning at each end to a central gable. The right return side of the house is plain, with a large brick stack. The rear wall has a four-pane sash window in deep reveals, set within a slightly cambered head. The former service wing is hipped and has two stories and three windows, all plain sashes. Near the main range, at the right-hand end, is a two-light small-pane casement at first floor level, and a similar opening below. A large stack is located at the outer end. The interior of the house has not been inspected. The stone boundary wall to the left of the verandah continues to a square gate pier capped with a pyramid. Beyond the gateway is a further pier and length of wall, approximately 2.7 metres high, with saddle-back coping, spanning the width of the site. To the right of the frontage, the boundary wall continues in garden wall bond brickwork, incorporating a plank gateway, and returning along the flanks and rear of the site. This villa represents an earlier survival in an area largely developed in the later 19th and early 20th centuries.