Dampiet House And Attached Walls

Dampiet House is a villa-type house built around 1830 to 1840. It is located in Bridgwater and has attached walls. The front of the house is stuccoed, while the rear is red Flemish-bond brick. It has a slate roof with a rendered stack to the right gable end and a brick ridge stack to the rear left and rear left gable end. The house follows a square, double-depth plan.

The main architectural style is classical. It is two storeys high with attic windows, and the front elevation has a two-window range. The front block features a moulded and bracketed eaves cornice that extends to a large central gable, and a pitched roof. A slate-roofed verandah spans the front and left return. The attic window at the apex of the front gable is a sash window with eight panes over eight. Ground-floor windows are predominantly six panes over six, while first-floor windows are a mix of six panes over six and eight panes over eight. There are two dormers with three-pane sash windows on the pitched roof. The rear elevation, fronting George Street, has a door to the left and two six-pane sash windows to each floor on the left side, with eight-pane-over-eight sash windows to the right.

The interior of the house has not been inspected.

Attached to the front right (north-east) corner is a substantial yellow brick wall constructed on a red Wembdon stone and lias plinth. This wall extends approximately 20 meters forward and is approximately 3 meters high where it meets the house, rising to about 5 meters in the centre. The central part of the wall features three circular stone surrounds for swivel windows; the two outer windows have two vertical glazing bars, and some glass. Lime wash remnants suggest this area was formerly the end wall of a ventilated conservatory. Blocked-up doors are present at each end of the wall, with a timber lintel over the one on the right. A brick wall, approximately 35 meters long, is attached to the rear left corner (south-west), running down in stages along George Street to a height of approximately 1 meter at the corner with Dampiet Street.