ROYAL TERRACE WITH RAILINGS

ROYAL TERRACE WITH RAILINGS, 68 AND 69, ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1038261
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:: ROYAL TERRACE WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: ROYAL TERRACE WITH RAILINGS, 68 AND 69, ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1038261
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: ROYAL TERRACE WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL TERRACE WITH RAILINGS, 68 AND 69, ESPLANADE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL TERRACE WITH RAILINGS, 68 AND 69, ESPLANADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weymouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 67949 79220

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6779SE ESPLANADE 873-1/20/141 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.68 AND 69 Royal Terrace, with railings (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE No.68 Royal Terrace) (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE No.69 Royal Terrace)

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2 houses at end of terrace. c1818. Flemish bond brickwork, slate roof. Typical one-room width, double-depth plan, with double roof to a central valley, and side entry to rear dogleg stair and lower service range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement developing as a full storey to the rear, each 3 windows, but 2 late C19 sash gabled dormers with decorative barge-boards and finials. No.68 has plain sash at second floor, and No.69 has 2-light casements under a top-light. First-floor sashes are 15-paned, taken to floor level, and an external balcony on cast-iron brackets and with original cast-iron railing. Ground floor has two 12-pane sashes, and the basements, with rendering, has replica 9-pane, one of these blocked. The arched doorway to No.68 has deep reveals to the door with transom light under a bold Doric portico with entablature and heavy blocking-course, all on 6 stone steps with nosings, and between stone flank walls. No.69 has an original 8-panel door in an arched opening in 2 orders, with a radial fanlight and reeded transom. All windows have stone sills, brick voussoirs at first floor and splayed rendered lintels to second floor; there is a floor band at basement and first floor, a moulded cornice, blocking-course and parapet. All this detail is returned to the left-hand end, which was rebuilt in 1857 when the adjacent Westham Road was widened; it is a full-width bowed front, with a flat-roofed 3-light dormer above 3 plain sashes, and at first floor a bowed oriel in stone, part of the C20 commercial premises attached. There are 2 stacks to the right party wall of each house. The rear wall is also with parapet, and central 2-light flat-roofed dormer each. INTERIOR: No.69 was partly inspected, and is typical of the original layout and detail in the terrace. A full-height staircase has stick balustrade (encased for much of its

height), and most of the original 6-panel doors in reeded architraves remain. Across the front of each, on a stone curb, are original spearhead railings, returned to the doorway of No.69, stopped to the porch of No.68, and with a gate at the right end to stone basement staircases. Royal Terrace was originally of 18 houses, with 3 units at each end slightly higher than and projecting from the remainder; Nos 68 & 69 are the remaining 2 units from the S end. Nos 68-72 were begun about 2 years later than the remainder. No.68 listed on 18.6.70. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 354).

Listing NGR: SY6794979220

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Sources

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Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 354

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.