Pear Tree Cottage, Thornleigh, Mallard Cottage, Orchard Cottage And Front Wall

A terrace of four cottages, dated 1819 and located on Nottington Lane in Weymouth. The buildings were originally conceived as a group of three cottages, but incorporate an internal lobby with entries to each side. The construction is of rubble, with a slate roof. The windows are 4-pane sashes set within flush moulded boxes, likely replacing original 16-pane sashes. Each pair of windows is flanked by panelled doors, with the gable-end cottages having single doors, and the central cottage featuring a pair. Orchard Cottage has an ogee tent hood supported by a trellis porch. Three ridge stacks are positioned opposite the doorways. The left-hand side of the terrace has been restructured and rendered, while the right-hand (north) gable features a raised and coped parapet with a ball finial. This gable displays a flush elliptical stone panel inscribed "S/ T-F/ 1819", above two 12-pane sashes on each floor. The rear elevation includes a lean-to section below two-light casements, with Orchard Cottage featuring two similar casements, as well as various flat-roofed extensions. The interior of the cottages was not inspected during the listing process. A rubble boundary wall, approximately one meter high with a weathered stone coping and short return walls to stone steps, runs along the full frontage of the cottages.