Description

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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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)