Somerset House

Somerset House, 8, Greenhill, Weymouth, DT4 7SG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328312
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: Somerset House
Statutory Address:: Somerset House, 8, Greenhill, Weymouth, DT4 7SG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328312
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: Somerset House
Statutory Address 1:: Somerset House, 8, Greenhill, Weymouth, DT4 7SG

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Somerset House, 8, Greenhill, Weymouth, DT4 7SG

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 68237 79993

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 October 2024 to update the name and address, amend description due to change of building use and reformat the text to current standards.

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WEYMOUTH GREENHILL (east side) No.8, Somerset House

(Formerly listed as No.8, Greenhill Hotel)

14/06/74

GV II House, hotel (at time of listing) converted to apartments in about 2010. c1840 and 1860. For the Duke of Somerset. Rendered or painted brick, slate roofs. The main front faces the sea, and is raised and set back from the adjoining Brunswick Terrace (qv). The original house was an L-plan, with two principal rooms to the east, and the staircase off-centre to the rear; a further range was added after 1857, on Greenhill, with the principal entry. The range to Greenhill, of painted brick, is of separate construction, but joined to the early building.

Sea-front range: two storeys, attic and basement, two windows; the mansard roof has a wide C20 three-light dormer, above two storey flat-roofed canted bays with 4:12:4 pane sashes. At the balcony level, raised on the basement, are two bows and central doors under a full-width ogee tent verandah with some glazing, enclosed by multi-pane glazing, with a light C20 balustrade. Below the balcony are concave units corresponding with the bows above, and central doors flanked by windows. A deep mid plat band, a thin moulded cornice at the head of the bays, blocking course and parapet, and end stacks, that to the right very high, to master the adjoining building. A C20 dormer also to the south.

Range to Greenhill: two storeys with two windows; plain sashes with a wide central arched opening over a panelled door with sidelights and a radial fanlight; an inner door has margin bar glazing. The cast-iron footscraper remains in situ. Plinth, mid plat band, cornice, blocking course and parapet, a stack at each end; to the left a coped half-gable rises above a later flat roof.

INTERIOR: the two ground floor front rooms have palmette cornices; the south room has a marble reeded fire surround enclosing some fine decorative tiles, and the other room has a fire surround in veined marble. Good original six-panel doors with panelled pilaster doorcases. The generous open-well staircase has Portland stone treads, decorative iron balustrade and a swept handrail. An inner door, possibly the former main door, has a deep radial fanlight.

A private house for the Duke of Somerset, but owned by Mr Vinings according to the 1857 map. This is the first property of a group immediately north of the main Esplanade terraces, marking the furthest reach of early C19 development in this direction. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 357).

Listing NGR: SY6823779993

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Legacy System number:: 467635
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 357

Legal

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