Gloucester Row (Terrace) With Area Railings

GLOUCESTER ROW (TERRACE) WITH AREA RAILINGS, 98 AND 99, ESPLANADE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365865
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:
Gloucester Row (Terrace) With Area Railings
Statutory Address:
GLOUCESTER ROW (TERRACE) WITH AREA RAILINGS, 98 AND 99, ESPLANADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365865
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
Gloucester Row (Terrace) With Area Railings
Statutory Address 1:
GLOUCESTER ROW (TERRACE) WITH AREA RAILINGS, 98 AND 99, ESPLANADE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
GLOUCESTER ROW (TERRACE) WITH AREA RAILINGS, 98 AND 99, 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 68037 79503

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6879 ESPLANADE 873-1/21/155 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.98 AND 99 Gloucester Row (terrace), with area railings (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE Nos.93-99 (Consecutive) Gloucester Row)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.7-13 ESPLANADE. 2 houses at end of terrace. c1790 (RCHME). Rendered, slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement, each 3 windows, all plain sashes. No.98 has 2 lofty hipped dormers with 6-pane sashes, and No.99 two smaller dormers with plain sash. At first floor the sashes are taken to floor level, and open to a full-width balcony on cast-iron brackets and with original decorative cast-iron balustrades. In No.99 the second floor lights have been extended down, through the sill band, and this property has a late Victorian canted oriel to the ground floor. No.98 has 9-pane sash to the basement, and No.99 a plain sash. To the left of each is a panelled door under shallow plain fanlight, in half-column doorcases with flat entablatures; that to No.99 is covered by a C20 illuminated sign. Ground floor is rusticated, there is a second-floor sill band, a moulded cornice, blocking course and parapet; 2 deep stacks to the central party wall. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the doors are on steps with nosings, and the basement areas are enclosed by original spearhead railings, returned to the doorways, and with standards, and a gate with steps down to the basements. These 2 houses are at the end of an original group of 8, of which the centre units, Nos 96 & 97 (qv), are on a slightly grander scale, with higher parapet; the former No.100 was demolished and replaced in the late C19. The alterations to ground and second-floor windows to No.99 are identical to alterations in No.95 (qv). (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 355).



Listing NGR: SY6803779503

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Legacy System number:
467602
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 355

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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