GORDON HOUSE, AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE) WITH RAILINGS

GORDON HOUSE, AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE) WITH RAILINGS, 46, ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145945
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: GORDON HOUSE, AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE) WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: GORDON HOUSE, AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE) WITH RAILINGS, 46, ESPLANADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145945
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: GORDON HOUSE, AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE) WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: GORDON HOUSE, AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE) WITH RAILINGS, 46, 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:: GORDON HOUSE, AUGUSTA PLACE (TERRACE) WITH RAILINGS, 46, 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 68038 79000

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW ESPLANADE 873-1/24/127 (West side) 14/06/74 No.46 Gordon House, Augusta Place (terrace), with railings (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE No.46 Augusta Place (part of Weymouth Hotel))

GV II

House at end of row, formerly hotel, now offices. Mid C18 (RCHME), mid C19 frontage to Esplanade. Rendered, slate hipped roof behind parapet. The entry is from Bond Street, which has the principal long facade. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement, 1-window front to the Esplanade, 5-window front to Bond Street. The Esplanade front has a 3-storey canted oriel with plain sashes to moulded cornices, and a full-width modillion cornice to the top floor; in the plane of the main wall at basement level is a 4-pane sash and a door, enclosed in slight spearhead railings, with a gate at the left-hand end to stone basement steps. The Bond Street front has blind openings to the first 2 bays at each level, but there is a sash with grille at pavement level; remaining windows are plain sashes, square to the second floor and deeper below, all in plain reveals, and with rendered keystones, and stone sills. At the centre, on 6 very steep nosed steps, partly contained within deep panelled reveals, is a C20 glazed door in a Gibbsian surround. A modillion cornice, blocking course and parapet, and, to the right, an early rainwater hopper. INTERIOR:, restored in 1992, is said to have been in a state of near collapse, and has been substantially restructured. The central tight-well staircase has turned balusters and square newels, and treads to scrolled ends, all based on the former stair detail; the Chinese trellis recorded in RCHME is no longer in situ. Each side of the stair was a single room, now sub-divided in part. This was one of the earlier houses on this part of the sea-front; the basic layout and proportions remain on the N, Bond Street front, but the former bow on the Esplanade front was replaced in the C19 by the canted version now in place. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 346).

Listing NGR: SY6803879000

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Legacy System number:: 467561
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 346

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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.