Royal Terrace
ROYAL TERRACE, 70, 71 AND 72, ESPLANADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038263
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL TERRACE, 70, 71 AND 72, ESPLANADE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038263
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL TERRACE, 70, 71 AND 72, ESPLANADE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL TERRACE, 70, 71 AND 72, 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 67950 79234
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6779SE ESPLANADE 873-1/20/142 (West side) 18/06/70 Nos.70, 71 AND 72 Royal Terrace
GV II
Formerly known as: No.15 ROYAL TERRACE. Formerly known as: No.13 ROYAL TERRACE. 3 houses in terrace. c1818. Flemish bond brickwork, rendered to No.70, slate roofs. PLAN: one-room width, double-depth, with double roof to a central valley, side entry to rear dogleg stair and lower service range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement, developing to full storey at rear with fall in ground; 3:2:3 windows, all sashes. No.70 has 2 late C19 gabled sash dormers with decorative barge-boards and finial; the parapet has been cut down opposite each dormer. Second floor has 9-pane above 15-pane at first floor, but the bottom sash without bars, and a full-width inserted shop front. No.71 has been considerably modified, with a prominent late C19 or early C20 canted oriel taken through 2 storeys and dormer to a hipped roof; at dormer level are casements, but plain sashes below, and to the left a plain sash at each level. Ground floor has a full width C20 shop front. No.72 has 2 flat-roofed dormers with C20 casements above 9- and 15-pane sashes, the latter with separate balcony rails, all above a full width C20 shop front. A plain band at first floor level, a moulded cornice, blocking and parapet, broken at the projecting oriel. No.70 has a deep ridge stack to the right. At the rear each has a small flat-roofed dormer, and there are various glazing-bar sashes. No.71 has a 3-storey service wing. Royal Terrace was originally of 18 houses, with a central block of 12, of which these 3 form part; they were part of the 'second build', from c1818, 2 years later than the units to the N. Each has lost the original ground floor, and the basements are now concealed on the street side. INTERIOR: not inspected. No.71 listed on 14.6.74. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 354).
Listing NGR: SY6795079234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467578
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 354
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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