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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- 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
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.
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.
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467602
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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