Listed Building: GREENHILL HOTEL (467635)

WEYMOUTH SY6879NW GREENHILL 873-1/18/175 (East side) 14/06/74 No.8 Greenhill Hotel GV II House, now hotel. c1840 and 1860. For the Duke of Somerset. Rendered or painted brick, slate roofs. The main front faces the sea, and is raised and set back from the adjoining Brunswick Terrace (qv). The original house was an L-plan, with 2 principal rooms to the E, and the staircase off-centre to the rear; a further range was added after 1857, on Greenhill, with the principal entry. The range to Greenhill, of painted brick, is of separate construction, but joined to the early building. Sea-front range: 2 storeys, attic and basement, 2 windows; the mansard roof has a wide C20 three-light dormer, above 2-storey flat-roofed canted bays with 4:12:4-pane sashes. At the balcony level, raised on the basement, are 2 bows and central doors under a full-width ogee tent verandah with some glazing, enclosed by multi-pane glazing, with a light C20 balustrade. Below the balcony are concave units corresponding with the bows above, and central doors flanked by windows. A deep mid plat band, a thin moulded cornice at the head of the bays, blocking course and parapet, and end stacks, that to the right very high, to master the adjoining building. A C20 dormer also to the S. Range to Greenhill: 2 storeys with 3 windows; plain sashes with a wide central arched opening over a panelled door with sidelights and a radial fanlight; an inner door has margin bar glazing. The cast-iron footscraper remains in situ. Plinth, mid plat band, cornice, blocking course and parapet, a stack at each end; to the left a coped half-gable rises above a later flat roof. INTERIOR: the 2 ground-floor front rooms have palmette cornices; the S room has a marble reeded fire surround enclosing some fine decorative tiles, and the other room has a fire surround in veined marble. Good original 6-panel doors with panelled pilaster doorcases. The generous open-well staircase has Portland stone treads, decorative iron balustrade and a swept handrail. An inner door, possibly the former main door, has a deep radial fanlight. A private house for the Duke of Somerset, but owned by Mr Vinings according to the 1857 map. This is the first property of a group immediately N of the main Esplanade terraces, marking the furthest reach of early C19 development in this direction. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 357). Listing NGR: SY6823779993

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