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It was such a nice day, that we headed to Weymouth and Portland. Lucky to have blue skys as well after previous rainy days.

The harbour in Weymouth.

View of a building near The Ship Inn.

Might be the Guildhall - Grade II* listed.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-467887-guildhall-with-attached-rear-boundary-wa" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Guildhall with Attached Rear Boundary Wall, Weymouth</a>

   WEYMOUTH

   SY6778NE ST EDMUND STREET
   873-1/23/282 (South side)
   12/12/53 Guildhall, with attached rear
   boundary wall
   (Formerly Listed as:
   ST EDMUND STREET
   (South side)
   Guildhall)

   GV II*

   Guildhall. 1836-7, with late C20 modifications. By Talbot Bury
   (RCHME). Portland stone ashlar, rear and party walls rendered,
   slate roof. A formal classical statement, with tall projecting
   portico carried on an open arcaded ground storey carried
   across the pavement. A grand entrance hall with staircase is
   flanked by cells to the left and offices to the right; on this
   side, in Maiden Street was formerly an open arcaded walk, now
   enclosed. The upper floor has a full-width main chamber, with
   service rooms behind.
   EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 bay front and 3 bay return. The
   principal front is in 1:3:1 windows; the tetrastyle Ionic
   portico with pediment covers three 15-pane sashes in moulded
   architraves, the centre light with cornice on scrolled
   consoles, and the outer bays have tripartite 5:15:5-pane
   sashes with stone pilaster mullions and entablature set
   between main pilasters and responds to the portico, and on a
   sill band with ovolo mould, which continues as a base to the
   portico columns.
   Ground floor is channelled, with voussoirs, and has a 9-pane
   arched sash with radial head in a plat surround and with
   panelled apron, flanking 3 arched openings, the central one
   elliptical over a pair of 3-panel doors; the side openings
   have bold cast-iron gates to small lobbies. That to the left
   has a 4-pane flush door under 4-pane transom light, on 4 stone
   steps, and to the right, where the lobby soffit has been
   lowered, a similar door.
   The 3 centre bays are under the bold projecting portico,
   forming a porte-cochere, with 3 front openings and single end
   ones, all arched. This front has a high plain plinth, a full
   entablature, and 4 square piers with moulded caps at the
   blocking-course level. The party wall to the left is plain,
   rendered.
   The front to Maiden Street is detailed as the main facade,
   with plain above channelled ashlar on a plain plinth. The
   first floor is in 5 bays divided by full-height pilasters and

   end responds, with 3 deep 15-pane sashes to pilasters and
   inset entablature, on a sill band, and blank end bays. Ground
   floor has 3 arched sashes (the centre one blind) and 2 high
   arched openings with heavy cast-iron gates backed by plate
   glass; these formerly gave to the internal open passageway.
   Above the entablature are 6 piers with cappings, but no
   connecting blocking course.
   The rear wall has 3 large sashes, the centre one without
   glazing bars, and a parallel range of lower 2-storey work with
   2 arched sashes, corner pilasters, cornice and blocking
   course.
   INTERIOR: the entrance doors, in a deep chamfered plain stone
   surround internally, have have heavy strap hinges, the upper
   ones carried around the elliptical top rails, and open to 4
   stone steps leading to a square hall with stone floor. To left
   and right, through arched doorways with cast-iron gates, are
   vaulted chambers off an inner corridor, with 4-panel flush
   doors under fanlights.
   The end of the hall has 3 lofty arches over the wide stone
   staircase, which divides from a landing to flights with
   risers. The cast-iron balustrades have a heavy mahogany
   wreathed handrail. At the landing is a deep niche containing a
   white marble statue, signed 'THEAKSTON, Sculp: 1821' of Samuel
   Weston '... four times Mayor ... died 1817 ...', and paid for
   by public subscription. The central of 3 landing sashes
   carries an engraved panel with the Weymouth Arms. Doors
   generally are 4-panelled.
   The upper floor formerly had 2 main spaces, a Court Room and a
   Council Chamber; this is now in one running across the front,
   with the centre section marked by square painted pilasters and
   responds carrying deep beams, to a simple compartmental
   ceiling, with egg-and-dart cornice below a deep plain frieze
   to a C19 moulded ceiling cornice. The centre section has a
   raised and recessed platform backed by panelling, with a
   panelled front balustrade.
   At either end of this space are Royal Arms; at the E end to
   Queen Victoria, in carved wood, of 1842, and at the W end a
   fine painted and carved Arms of James I, supported by gilded
   figures representing Peace and Plenty. George I Arms on
   canvas, painted and possibly given by James Thornhill in 1721
   (the year of his election as MP (RCHME).
   A suitably dignified building, the Guildhall cannot be fully
   appreciated as it faces a narrow street. It is on the site of
   a former Melcombe Regis Town Hall. Behind the building, at the
   far end of the rear wall is a projecting section of high
   rubble wall, which could possibly date from this earlier
   building.
   (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 338).