Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6879NW GREENHILL
873-1/18/175 (East side)
14/06/74 No.8
Greenhill Hotel

GV II

House, now hotel. 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
2 principal rooms to the E, 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: 2 storeys, attic and basement, 2 windows; the
mansard roof has a wide C20 three-light dormer, above 2-storey
flat-roofed canted bays with 4:12:4-pane sashes. At the
balcony level, raised on the basement, are 2 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 S.
Range to Greenhill: 2 storeys with 3 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 2 ground-floor front rooms have palmette
cornices; the S 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 6-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 N 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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613665

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