Listed Building: CHALBURY LODGE (467824)

WEYMOUTH SY68SE PRESTON ROAD, Preston 873-1/2/662 (South East side) 14/06/74 Chalbury Lodge (Formerly Listed as: PRESTON ROAD, Preston Chalbury Lodge (Old People's Home)) II Large detached villa in own grounds, used as old people's home, empty and boarded up at time of survey. Early C19 with c1930 additions and modifications. Rendered, slate roof. PLAN: a wide main range facing S, with attached narrow carriage-house range rear, right. All windows blocked, but the previous list refers to glazing-bar sashes. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, the S front is 4 windows wide, with full-height flat-roofed C20 bows at either end, and to the centre 2 pairs of French doors incorporating side-lights, set to a steel grillage balcony with railings, above 2 large lights, that to the right having small Doric pilasters carrying a projecting lintel; to each side is a small slit light at each floor. A plain mid band, returned to the W front. The W front is 3 windows, with a tent verandah in 7 bays on slender cast-iron columns, with trellis supports at either end. Ground floor has, to the left, a wide door on 2 stone steps, and in a wide moulded stone architrave with a shouldered head; this apparently mid C20. The rear has various lights, and to the right, a C20 stone plat band surround to a door. The low-pitched hipped roof has deep plain eaves, and a large stack in front of the ridge, left, to the S front, and on the hipped slope to the right. The service wing, which has an exposed rubble rear (E) wall, has a central recessed arch above a wide pair of plank doors hung to sliding gear, flanked, right, by a further pair of plank garage doors. To the left is a lunette window and a small door. The rear eaves has a small brick stack. INTERIOR: not inspected. Listing NGR: SY6973982743

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Mar 23 2017 11:29AM