Listed Building: BELFIELD TERRACE (468037)

WEYMOUTH SY6778SW WYKE ROAD 873-1/26/414 (North side) 12/12/53 Nos.8 AND 10 Belfield Terrace GV II Pair of semi-detached houses in row. Early C19. Rendered, hipped slate roof. PLAN: double-depth, with wide spiral stair in hemicycle to flat roof at either end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement, developing to full 3 storeys at back. Each house has a 6- and a 9-pane flat-roofed dormer with slate cheeks, above 12-pane sashes in plain reveals, with stone sills, and the basement has a 2-light casement in an area contained by cast-iron rails. To right and left are plain arched openings over 6-panel fielded doors with fanlight, on a single stone step. The rear has 9-pane dormers above 12-pane sashes, and each has a wide 8:16:8-pane sash orioel bow, with inserted steel casements below. A steel escape stair at either end. No.10 is linked to No.12 (qv). INTERIOR: the ground floor and basement only of No.10 were inspected, but detail in No.8 reputed to be similar. The stone spiral stair has an elliptical radial skylight; in No.10 the stair is said formerly to have descended a further level to a well, but this now blocked. There are good reeded cornices, and original window shutters. Later C19 fireplaces in marble to ground floor rooms. Part of a group of 3 pairs of semi-detached houses, with No.4 and Nos 12 & 14 (qqv). (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 346). Listing NGR: SY6730778413

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