Listed Building: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL (467393)

WEYMOUTH SY6684 CHURCH STREET, Upwey 873-1/6/567 (East side) 14/06/74 Former Methodist Chapel GV II Former Methodist chapel, now dwelling. Dated 1809. Coursed rubble, slate roof. A plain rectangular building, with late C20 flat-roofed rear extension as part of conversion to a house. The street front has 5 pointed lights with cusped heads and in dog-tooth arches, all linked by a drip-mould with carved stops, and divided by foliate capped colonnettes, probably inserted in the later C19; the lights filled with small-pane casements. At the ground floor 2 wide lights with small-pane casements and to crude pointed arches flank a lower square opening with a pair of French doors, and there is a further door and inserted openings on the right return. Roof is hipped. INTERIOR: not inspected. The building was licensed in April 1810 'for Dissenting Protestants' (RCHME), but converted to domestic use in the 1980s. The former List entry refers to a stone gabled porch and brick lean-tos to the front. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 366). Listing NGR: SY6659884535

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