Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6879NW BRUNSWICK TERRACE
873-1/18/36 (West side)
12/12/53 Nos.12 AND 13
(Formerly Listed as:
BRUNSWICK TERRACE
Nos.1-20 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of houses in terrace. 1823-1827. By Morris Clarke and
George Cox (RCHME). Rendered, slate roof.
PLAN: narrow frontage double-depth plans with rear dogleg
staircase and lower service wing, and built as part of
Brunswick Terrace, embracing 20 houses; this near-central pair
is slightly higher than and stepped forward from those
adjoining.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; No.12 has a flat-roofed dormer
above two 12-pane sashes at first floor, and a 2-storey
8:12:8-pane sashed bow, and No.13 has a Victorian gabled
dormer above a 2-storey bow, the lower sashes plain, raised in
the second floor with a canted bay with plain sashes, and
having a blind window to its left.
Each house has an arched doorway with plain reveals, and plain
fanlight above a reeded transom to panelled doors. There are
plat bands above the ground and first floors, a slight moulded
cornice, blocking course and parapet. Deep brick stack to each
of the right party walls.
The back is in brick, with paired brick 'dentils' to the
cornice; No.12 has a small flat-roofed dormer, 12-pane sashes,
and a single-storey gabled rendered wing running back to the
road. No.13 has a Victorian gabled dormer, plain sashes, a
shallow 2-storey brick gabled wing, and broad gabled garage
extension.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of the last of the formal terraces at the N end of the
Esplanade, providing a near-central emphasis to the Terrace.
(RCHME: Dorset: South-East: London: 1970-: 354; Buildings of
England: Newman J & Pevsner N: Dorset: London: 1972-: 454).

Listing NGR: SY6821579920

Selected Sources

• Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 354
• Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 454

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