Eastbrook House

WEYMOUTH

SY6684 CHURCH STREET, Upwey 873-1/6/561 (East side) 14/06/74 No.10 Eastbrook House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET, Upwey (East side) Eastbrook House)

GV II

Detached house in large garden. Mid C19. Rock-faced coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. An Italianate villa set back from the street, with low-pitched hipped front range and gabled parallel rear range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; front to Church Street is in 4 bays, the third of which is a porch brought forward, with gabled top. First floor has 4-pane sashes, but to porch an arched sash in moulded architrave. Ground floor has large 6-pane sashes, possibly with 12-panes originally, in plat band eared architraves with thin cornice. 6-panelled door under a plain fanlight has a Gibbsian surround. Quoins are rusticated, plain sill band to first floor, and deep eaves bracketed to porch gable. To the left the rear range projects. There are 4 slender ridge stacks and a rear eaves stack. The shorter S front, similarly detailed, has projecting gable to the right, with paired arched lights under flush relieving arch, and a flat-roofed square bay with tripartite sash in plain channelled pilasters and slender Doric mullions under a frieze with cornice. To left are plain sashes at first floor over deep 2-light casements with transom, running down to floor level. East wall contains various sashes and lights, low projecting hipped stair turret and full-height gabled projecting unit to right. INTERIOR: not inspected. A handsome house, not altered externally, on an important corner site.

Listing NGR: SY6669484359