Listed Building: ROYAL TERRACE (467578)

WEYMOUTH SY6779SE ESPLANADE 873-1/20/142 (West side) 18/06/70 Nos.70, 71 AND 72 Royal Terrace GV II Formerly known as: No.15 ROYAL TERRACE. Formerly known as: No.13 ROYAL TERRACE. 3 houses in terrace. c1818. Flemish bond brickwork, rendered to No.70, slate roofs. PLAN: one-room width, double-depth, with double roof to a central valley, side entry to rear dogleg stair and lower service range. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement, developing to full storey at rear with fall in ground; 3:2:3 windows, all sashes. No.70 has 2 late C19 gabled sash dormers with decorative barge-boards and finial; the parapet has been cut down opposite each dormer. Second floor has 9-pane above 15-pane at first floor, but the bottom sash without bars, and a full-width inserted shop front. No.71 has been considerably modified, with a prominent late C19 or early C20 canted oriel taken through 2 storeys and dormer to a hipped roof; at dormer level are casements, but plain sashes below, and to the left a plain sash at each level. Ground floor has a full width C20 shop front. No.72 has 2 flat-roofed dormers with C20 casements above 9- and 15-pane sashes, the latter with separate balcony rails, all above a full width C20 shop front. A plain band at first floor level, a moulded cornice, blocking and parapet, broken at the projecting oriel. No.70 has a deep ridge stack to the right. At the rear each has a small flat-roofed dormer, and there are various glazing-bar sashes. No.71 has a 3-storey service wing. Royal Terrace was originally of 18 houses, with a central block of 12, of which these 3 form part; they were part of the 'second build', from c1818, 2 years later than the units to the N. Each has lost the original ground floor, and the basements are now concealed on the street side. INTERIOR: not inspected. No.71 listed on 14.6.74. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 354). Listing NGR: SY6795079234

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