AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE)

AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE), 41 AND 42, ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145943
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1970
List Entry Name:: AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE)
Statutory Address:: AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE), 41 AND 42, ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145943
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE)
Statutory Address 1:: AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE), 41 AND 42, 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:: AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE), 41 AND 42, ESPLANADE

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District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weymouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 68020 78974

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW ESPLANADE 873-1/24/123 (West side) 18/06/70 Nos.41 AND 42 Augusta Place (terrace) (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE Nos.41 AND 42 Augusta Place (Victoria Hotel))

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Formerly known as: Nos.7 AND 8 AUGUSTA PLACE. Pair of houses, now hotel. Mid C19, possibly encasing late C18 work, but the general scale appropriate to mid C19. Rendered, slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, attic and basement, 4 windows; 4 glazing-bar sash dormers with ornate half-hipped gables on curved brackets, but all other windows plain sash. Three 3-storey canted bays with dentilled top cornices, panelled skirts, that to third floor carried across the full width of the front, including the sill band, and with dentils above the first-floor windows. In bay 2 is a sash with moulded architrave and small cornice at first and third floors; the lower sash is brought to floor level, giving to the portico balcony. Ground floor has smaller projecting bays with 1:2:1 plain sashes, and scroll brackets carried forward under the oriels. The central pair of C20 doors has a bold square projecting porte-cochere on slender Tuscan columns with fluted neckings, and with an ornate cast-iron balustrade; the first-floor oriels also have cast-iron cresting at balcony level. There are plain bands at first- and second-floor levels, the double band at second floor, and plain band below the blocking course with coped parapet. At second floor, above the portico, on a console bracket, is a coloured bust of Queen Victoria, inscribed 'Jubilee 1887/1897'; this was formerly the Victoria Hotel. To each end are coped gables, each with 2 deep stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SY6802078974

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.