Listed Building: WELLINGTON COURT (467263)

WEYMOUTH SY6878NW BARRACK ROAD 873-1/24/11 (North West side) Nos.54-59 (Consecutive) Wellington Court GV II Part of Red Barracks, now block of 6 apartments. Early C19. Flemish bond brickwork or rendered, slate roof. An L-plan building in 2 linked parts. EXTERIOR: the slightly lower range across the NW end has a short 1-bay return to the higher range to the S, and is in 2 storeys, with three 9-pane sashes at first floor above 2 to ground floor, with a former doorway, now blocked. In the re-entrant angle is a hipped porch over panelled doors in each direction. Above the door on the return is a small oculus. The left-hand quoins are rendered, as is the return wall. At the opposite end is a single sash at each level. The whole has a low-pitched hipped roof. The linked range is in 2 storeys, 3 windows; 12-pane sashes in plain reveals to good brick voussoirs and stone sills, the rendered back wall has 2 sashes at each level, and the outer gable end is plain. The pyramidal roof has a finial, and is set to a 2-course brick eaves band. The rear wall, facing the harbour, has 12-pane sashes, 5 at first floor and 4 below, on a rubble plinth. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Red Barracks formed part of a chain of one-troop cavalry stations along the south coast, planned by the Barrack Master, General Col DeLancey. Part of an externally complete group. Listing NGR: SY6816978645

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