Listed Building: (467304)

WEYMOUTH SY6879NW BRUNSWICK TERRACE 873-1/18/35 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.3-11 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: BRUNSWICK TERRACE Nos.1-20 (Consecutive)) GV II Terrace of 9 houses, part of group of 20. 1823-1827. By Morris Clarke and George Cox (RCHME). Brick (No.3), rendered (Nos 4-11), slate roof. PLAN: a series of narrow frontage houses in double-depth, with dogleg stair at the back, and small service wing extensions, in various depths, following the line of the Esplanade opposite Waterloo Place (qv). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 1 or 2 windows; there are varied dormers, a single Victorian gabled to Nos 3, 5 & 10, with a canted version to No.7, and early flat-roofed sash or casement to the remainder, but 2 with 9-pane sash to No.6. The original fronts have 3-storey flat bows with 8:12:8-pane sashes with dentil cornices. The front detail to No.10 was altered in the late C19, (see also No.14 (qv)) and variations are: No.5, with a 2-storey canted oriel above a full-width pilaster shop front; Nos 6 & 11 with two 12-pane sashes at second floor, above a 2-storey bow, and No.10 with canted Victorian plain sash full-height bay. Nos 8-11 have one 12-pane sash at second-floor level, in addition to the bow. Arched doorways, to the left, have fanlights above fluted transoms, that to No.3 with Y-tracery bars, and No.10 has a Victorian gabled porch on decorative wood supports. A slight plinth, a plat band above ground and first floors, and a thin moulded cornice to blocking course and parapet. Each property has a deep brick stack, usually with 6 clay pots, to the right party wall. The backs are in brickwork, with paired brick dentils to the cornice, with a single dormer behind a parapet (except No.3), 12-pane sashes, and narrow single-storey gabled wings taken out to the road at the rear. Nos 3 & 4 have a large C20 dormer, and full-height rear range, and Nos 5 & 6 have 3-storey gabled rear ranges. INTERIOR: not inspected. This is part of the last of the formal terraces, at the N end of the Esplanade, beginning with the Round House (qv), and has been altered only slightly since completion. (RCHME: Dorset: South-East: London: 1970-: 357; Buildings of England: Newman J & Pevsner N: Dorset: London: 1972-: 454). Listing NGR: SY6820879906

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