Listed Building: STATUE HOUSE, JOHNSTONE ROW (TERRACE) (467575)

WEYMOUTH SY6879 ESPLANADE 873-1/21/139 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.66 AND 67 Statue House, Johnstone Row (terrace) (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE No.67 Statue House) (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE Nos.60-67 (Consecutive) Johnstone Row) GV II* Pair of houses, now one property, at end of terrace, returning to St Mary Street. c1815 (RCHME). Rendered, slate roof. PLAN: a single house at the end of Johnstone Row (Nos 60-65 (qv)), and a slightly inset bowed end facing N along the Esplanade. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement. No.66 has 2 flat-roofed dormers above a replacement window at second floor over a 12-pane sash, with, to the right, a full-height bowed oriel with 6:9:6-pane sashes above 8:12:8-pane to ground and first floors. The basement has a paired sash behind vertical iron bars under the oriel. To the left, on 5 stone steps with nosings is an original 6-panel door under a painted-in fanlight in an arch in 2 orders. This part of the property is detailed as for the adjoining 6 houses, but retaining more of the original detail. The bold rounded N end is slightly set in from No.66, but on the return to St Mary Street sets back by a flat wall to the rear of No.66. The curved mansard roof has 2 flat-roofed dormers, above 6:9:6 and 8:12:8-pane flat bows, with a 9-pane and 12-pane sash centred between. Ground floor, under a continuous inflected entablature with dentil cornice (there are some breaks in the dentil run), has fluted Doric pilasters on high pedestals taken to the level of the ground floor. From the left, this covers a blank panel, boarded in, and fine early display bows in 45 panes with deep tapered glazing bars, each side of a square projecting portico with a large arched 9-pane window facing N, and part-glazed doors with radial fanlights each side, on flights of 5 nosed stone steps contained in a pierced stone balustrade. The entablature is carried round the portico, which has fluted wood Doric columns, and pilaster responds. Beyond the second display window is a blank panel, corresponding to that on the opposite side, but with an inserted door at low level. The basement has windows behind vertical bars each side of the portico. A mid band, and moulded cornice to blocking-course and coped parapet. The right-hand end stops to a flat pilaster, and returns to the flat rear wall. A large ridge stack at the rear of the bowed mansard. A single-storey shop unit is attached to the S end, facing St Mary Street. This has panelled pilasters and prominent consoles with ball finials, with a cast-iron cresting to the fascia with moulded cornice. A central pair of glazed doors. INTERIOR: substantially modified, and retains little original detail. Statue House is splendid urban theatre externally, combining with No.1 Coburg Place (qv) and the King's Statue (qv), from which the name derives, to provide a fitting setting to the S end of the main promenade. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 354). Listing NGR: SY6800579202

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