Listed Building: VICTORIA TERRACE (467607)

WEYMOUTH SY6879NW ESPLANADE 873-1/18/158 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.132-138 AND 140-146 Victoria Terrace (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE Nos.132-146 (Consecutive) Victoria Terrace, The Prince Regent Hotel (No.139)) GV II Formerly known as: Nos.1-14 and Burdon Hotel ESPLANADE. Terrace of houses; the central block comprising the Hotel Prince Regent (qv). 1855-56. Portland ashlar front, brick returns and rendered backs, slate roof. PLAN: symmetrical terrace, with raised end pavilions slightly brought forward, and central wide unit as hotel (separately listed). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic and basement, and with continuous balcony at first floor. The rear, in full 4 storeys and attic, has small 3-storey hipped service extensions to most properties and some further extensions, especially at the S end. Each house is 3-windowed, all sashes in moulded architraves, with a keystone, and at the first floor with small moulded cornice supporting a central raised panel, the ground floor doorway on steps is normally to the right, with steps to basement area at the opposite end. The end units, Nos 132 & 146, have a raised attic storey, with 6-pane sashes, and the remainder have 2 small flat-roofed slate-cheeked dormers behind the parapet; No.141 (Marina Court) has a large hipped Victorian canted dormer. Many windows retain glazing bars, 9-pane to second floor, 15-pane to balcony level, 12-pane at ground floor, and 16-pane to the basement. No.132 has 2-light casements to a deep transom light at first floor, and at ground floor most units have lost the bars, some have the upper sash only with bars. At basement level bars are retained to bays 7, 8, 10-13 & 16. Doors are generally panelled, with side lights and a plain transom light, in moulded architraves, and on 5 stone steps. No.132 has, to the left, a projecting flat-roofed portico on Ruskinian Byzantine columns, No.133 has a panelled door with side-lights, Nos 135 & 137 have been blocked, and contain a plain sash, and No.138 is blocked, with a small 6-pane sash. The terrace has original spearhead railings, returned to the doorways, and with a gate to the basement steps. The end units have alternating rusticated quoins. There are plain sill bands to each floor, a moulded cornice, and blocking course with serpentine fluting; the projecting end pavilions have plain corner pilasters and a moulded cornice at the attic level. The first-floor balcony balustrade in cast-iron has anthemion decoration. There are large brick stacks to each house at the party wall to both front and rear slopes. The return at the left-hand end has dressed stone walling to basement and first floor, and brick or rendering above. It has various windows, including arched sashes with glazing bars to 4 levels, centre. To the left there is a narrow full-height extension in brick. The right-hand return, to Lennox Street, also has stone to basement and first floor, with yellow brick above, with a blind light to the left, and central arched sashes with bars at 4 levels. The back, which is rendered, retains mostly original dormers, 2 to each unit, and glazing-bar sashes, to plain flush stone lintels, plus the small service extension. The end units return with an attic storey, and are in stone, with rusticated quoins. INTERIOR: No.146 was inspected in part. It has 2 main rooms with a transverse dogleg staircase between them to the left of the lobby. The inner lobby glazed door has side-lights and a big transom light with margin panes; many of the doors have moulded architraves, and there are small-scale cornices with egg-and-dart enrichment. The stair has stick balusters and a mahogany swept handrail. In the ground-floor front room is a large stone arched fire opening with keystone and with fielded panels, over a cast-iron grate; the rear room has a bold console fire surround. The cellars run out beyond the basement area under the pavement, this is said to be general to the terrace. This early Victorian terrace retains in the 7 units each side of the raised centre the general layout and proportions of the earlier developments, and has been very little modified. With its stone frontage it is one of the best presented units on the sea-front. (The Buildings of England: Newman J & Pevsner N: Dorset: London: 1972-: 454). Listing NGR: SY6813979838

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