Listed Building: THE MALT HOUSE AND MALTHOUSE COTTAGE (467770)

WEYMOUTH SY6682NW NOTTINGTON LANE, Nottington 873-1/10/451 (West side) 14/06/74 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) The Malt House and Malthouse Cottage (Formerly Listed as: NOTTINGTON LANE, Nottington The Malthouse, Malthouse Cottage) II Former malthouse and cottage, now 7 dwellings. Dated 1831. Rubble with Portland stone dressings, rendered rear wall, slate roof. PLAN: main range has a long gabled roof, with a projecting timber-clad hauling bay to the left of centre on a broad cross-gable, and a lofty truncated conical vent towards the right end; the former wheel was at this end of the building. At the rear the ground rises considerably, and the main entry is at first floor, with a basement floor with an area below; rooms have also been made in the former roof space. Malthouse Cottage, with lower roofline, is attached at the left-hand end. EXTERIOR: principal range has, to left of the projecting hauling bay, 5 bays, the third of these formerly with hauling doors, mainly 12- or 16-pane sashes, to flush wide stone lintels with keystones; there are 2 blank bays to the second floor. The ground-floor windows have keystones, which are joined by a continuous slightly projecting plat band; between bays 1 and 2 are wide plank doors with a 4-pane transom light, with similar doors to bay 3, under a first-floor door. The central coped gable with cross saddle has a projecting horizontally timber clad gabled hauling way on brackets, with a 16-pane light set low. Under this at ground floor is a plank door with 4-pane transom light. To the right are 3+5 bays with detailing as for the other half; at second floor 1+5 sixteen-pane, at first floor a plank door and two 12-pane, and ground floor with a square loading panel under a 4-pane transom light, two 12-pane, a further door with transom light and two 12-pane. Centred to the end 5 bays are 2 high arched openings with flush surround and projecting keystones over transom lights with vertical bars and wide plank panelled fill with dividing pier and impost; these have sills at approx 0.6m above the road level. Above the arches is a worn diamond-shaped datestone inscribed 'GNS 1831', below a small square panel. The wide return gable has one paired 12-pane above 2 similar, with a coped gable to ball finial. The rear has been arranged for modern occupation, with 3 deep-set paired doors, approached by bridges, and flanked by a small single- and large 2-light casement, and with paired 12-pane lights to the lower ground floor. The roof has a series of 10 lay-lights. At the S end is Malthouse Cottage, slightly set back, in an L-plan with a C20 gabled porch inserted in the re-entrant angle. The hipped front, with large flush quoins, has a C20 casement over a 12-pane sash, and the long C20 return wing has a small 3-light at the ground floor and a coped gable. INTERIOR: not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset: South-East: London: 1970-: 360). Listing NGR: SY6674682770

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