Grosvenor Place (Terrace)

GROSVENOR PLACE (TERRACE), 33 AND 34, ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145939
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
Grosvenor Place (Terrace)
Statutory Address:
GROSVENOR PLACE (TERRACE), 33 AND 34, ESPLANADE
East frontage of 33 and 34 Grosvenor Place.
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Date:
2002-10-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145939
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
Grosvenor Place (Terrace)
Statutory Address 1:
GROSVENOR PLACE (TERRACE), 33 AND 34, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GROSVENOR PLACE (TERRACE), 33 AND 34, 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 68072 78911

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW ESPLANADE 873-1/24/118 (West side) Nos.33 AND 34 Grosvenor Place (terrace)

GV II

Marked on OS as Nos 3 and 4 Grosvenor Place. 2 houses, now restaurant and commercial premises. Late C18 with late C19 extension. Rendered, slate roofs. The 2 houses, facing to the E, return with a long frontage facing N, across which for most of the width is a stepped-forward glazed section. EXTERIOR: the E front is in 2 distinctive sections, each 3 storeys with 1-window width; the left half has an unusual canted bay in lightweight structure, with thin mullions, and glazing full-storey height, with decorative cresting, and a door to the right. The right half has a 2-storey canted plain sash oriel, with moulded cornices, above two 2-light display windows; to the right is a one-storey glazed extension c2m wide. Remains of a moulded cornice, blocking course and parapet, and there is a central brick stack. The long return, facing N, is in scribed rendering, in 3 storeys with 3+2+2 windows, all sashes; at second floor is a painted-in 9-pane, then four 9-pane and two 4-pane. First floor has a pair of French doors, a painted-in 12-pane, three 12-pane (plus a small inserted extra light) and two 4-pane. This part has a good moulded cornice, blocking course and parapet, and a hipped roof with 3 stacks. Across the ground floor is the projecting section under a flat roof with continuous display frontage in large panes, with recessed doors to the left, and a flush door to No.33. Set back to the right, in the main plane, is a 4-pane sash and a door. INTERIOR: not inspected. The building forms a visual stop at the point in the Esplanade where Augusta Place steps forward to Grosvenor Place.





Listing NGR: SY6807078912

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
467555
Legacy System:
LBS

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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