Listed Building: ROYAL TERRACE WITH RAILINGS (467576)

WEYMOUTH SY6779SE ESPLANADE 873-1/20/141 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.68 AND 69 Royal Terrace, with railings (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE No.68 Royal Terrace) (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE No.69 Royal Terrace) GV II 2 houses at end of terrace. c1818. Flemish bond brickwork, slate roof. Typical one-room width, double-depth plan, with double roof to a central valley, and side entry to rear dogleg stair and lower service range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement developing as a full storey to the rear, each 3 windows, but 2 late C19 sash gabled dormers with decorative barge-boards and finials. No.68 has plain sash at second floor, and No.69 has 2-light casements under a top-light. First-floor sashes are 15-paned, taken to floor level, and an external balcony on cast-iron brackets and with original cast-iron railing. Ground floor has two 12-pane sashes, and the basements, with rendering, has replica 9-pane, one of these blocked. The arched doorway to No.68 has deep reveals to the door with transom light under a bold Doric portico with entablature and heavy blocking-course, all on 6 stone steps with nosings, and between stone flank walls. No.69 has an original 8-panel door in an arched opening in 2 orders, with a radial fanlight and reeded transom. All windows have stone sills, brick voussoirs at first floor and splayed rendered lintels to second floor; there is a floor band at basement and first floor, a moulded cornice, blocking-course and parapet. All this detail is returned to the left-hand end, which was rebuilt in 1857 when the adjacent Westham Road was widened; it is a full-width bowed front, with a flat-roofed 3-light dormer above 3 plain sashes, and at first floor a bowed oriel in stone, part of the C20 commercial premises attached. There are 2 stacks to the right party wall of each house. The rear wall is also with parapet, and central 2-light flat-roofed dormer each. INTERIOR: No.69 was partly inspected, and is typical of the original layout and detail in the terrace. A full-height staircase has stick balustrade (encased for much of its height), and most of the original 6-panel doors in reeded architraves remain. Across the front of each, on a stone curb, are original spearhead railings, returned to the doorway of No.69, stopped to the porch of No.68, and with a gate at the right end to stone basement staircases. Royal Terrace was originally of 18 houses, with 3 units at each end slightly higher than and projecting from the remainder; Nos 68 & 69 are the remaining 2 units from the S end. Nos 68-72 were begun about 2 years later than the remainder. No.68 listed on 18.6.70. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 354). Listing NGR: SY6794979220

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