Listed Building: (467868)

WEYMOUTH SY6778NE ST ALBAN STREET 873-1/23/271 (South side) 18/06/70 No.9 (Formerly Listed as: ST ALBAN'S STREET (South side) Nos.7-9 (Consecutive)) GV II House in row, with shop, on corner with Maiden Street. Early C19. Rendered, slate mansard roof. The property was built with No.8 (qv), returning with a broad gable end. 2 storeys and attic. The front is 2 windows wide; 2 raking dormers, one with a small-pane 2-light casement which appears to be in part in No.8, the other temporarily blocked. At first floor is a 12-pane sash in a moulded box, and a bold canted oriel with 8:12:8-pane sash. Ground floor has, to the left, a plate-glass display window in a pilaster doorcase, then a fine C19 shop front, which returns to the right gable. A shallow fascia with moulded cornice, covers a broad bow with very slender cast-iron colonnette mullions to haunched heads, above a shallow stall-riser; this is exactly repeated in the Maiden Street front, and between, across the corner and on 1 step, the original glazed door under a transom light with basket-handle head, in a pilaster case. The broad gabled return, wuth a stack, has a blind light above the display front, and, to the right, a small 4-pane sash to the attic, and 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors. A short wing with mansard roof at a lower level is in 2 storeys, with 2 windows; a 2-light casement raking dormer above two 12-pane sashes at first floor, and at ground floor a wide panelled late C19 door and a modified 12-pane sash. A stack to the right. INTERIOR: not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 350). Listing NGR: SY6799278882

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