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DORSET - Weymouth, Waverley Arms

National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part One

121 Abbotsbury Road, Weymouth, DT4 0JX

Tel: 01305 787917

Listed Status: Not listed

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Large corner-site pub rebuilt in 1935 by Devenish Brewery of Weymouth. Built of brick with a mock Tudor timber effect on the upper floors, it is situated in the inner suburbs of Weymouth, but which has seen better days. However, it retains its four original rooms. On the corner is a large, basic public bar with a bar-back including pairs of twin columns and a plainly boarded counter with a modern bar top of melamine(?). To the right is an off-sales compartment which functioned until as late as 2000 (mainly for confectionery for the local kids) but now used as a store. Beyond this, and announced in the window glass over the entrance, is a lounge and (formerly) private bar (now pool room). The former has been rather abused by padded furnishings but the private bar has what seems an inter-war Art Deco bar counter front (quadrant-shaped) and an oval shaped coloured glass skylight. The servery catering for these two rooms has a bar-back in the same style as that in the public bar.

The left hand side entrance to the pub on Knightsdale Road has a double door to the large function room, which doubles up as a skittle alley, and can also be accessed from the Public bar. Gents in this area retains its two large original Shanks urinals. There is a third external door immediately to the right hand of the function room entrance, which is believed to used for the Jug sales, but is now boarded up internally. In the lobby by the function room is a dumb waiter (complete with working gear), formerly used to service the Billiards room and Freemasons meeting room upstairs. These two rooms have been converted to form Landlords living space. Five letting rooms have been decorated, and in use as such, with separate bathroom and toilet for them all.