Listed Building: BELVIDERE (TERRACE) (467605)

WEYMOUTH SY6879NW ESPLANADE 873-1/18/157 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.116-131 (Consecutive) Belvidere (terrace) GV II Terrace of 16 houses. Begun 1818, completed 1855 (RCHME). Brick, many rendered, slate roof. Units generally in 2-room depth with dogleg stair to one side, and small rear service wing; all are under a double-ridge roof with central valley gutter, but Nos 127 & 128 are of greater depth than the remainder. The central pair and 2 houses at each end are slightly stepped forward to provide articulation. A variety of wings has been added later at the rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement, becoming a full 4 storeys at the lower rear. Each house has 2 flat-roofed 6-pane sash dormer windows, except Nos 118, 123 & 125, with gabled Victorian dormers. The parapet has been cut down in front of the dormers to Nos 120, 122, 123, 125, 127 & 129. Below, each house has 3 windows, all sashes; 12-pane at second floor, 15-pane to first floor to a continuous balcony, arched 12-pane to the ground floor, and 16-pane to the basement. Glazing bars remain as follows: second-floor to Nos 112, 116 & 118; first-floor to Nos 118, 126 & 127; ground-floor to Nos 116, 117, 124 & 125, and basement to all except 117, 119, 123, 125 & 128. No.124 has had a shop front inserted. Windows are generally in plain reveals, but the centre one to each house at first floor has thin pilasters supporting consoles to a moulded cornice. The 6-panelled door with side lights and radial fanlight, on 6 steps with nosings remains to most units. Spearhead cast-iron railings return each side of the steps, and there is a gate to steps to the basement areas. Ground floor is channelled, under a stone balcony on brackets, and with cast-iron trellis-pattern balustrade, second-floor windows are to a sill band, and there is a moulded cornice, blocking course and parapet. There are 16 deep brick stacks to each of the ridges, and further stacks flush with the rear wall to Nos 118-124. The left return is plain, with paired stacks joined by a flat parapet, and a central sash to the second floor. A lower hipped wing is set back, to the left. The right return is plain, with small paired stacks joined by a flat parapet, above a wide central blank panel to arched head, flanked left by 2 blind lights, and right by 12-pane sashes; the basement level is in ashlar, with a small central light, and there is a low hipped 3-storey rear wing including a 2-storey canted oriel. The back wall is mainly in brickwork, some of this in English garden wall bond (5 courses of stretchers to 1 of headers), and it retains many of the original dormers behind a continuous parapet, some with sashes, and various glazing-bar sashes, including an arched sash with radial bars to the staircase lower level. A variety of wings, some of original date, and many with glazing-bar sashes. The extra depth of Nos 127-128, with rendered walls, is prominent. INTERIOR: not inspected. The terrace has lost some of its homogeneity resulting from rendering the fronts, but is generally well retained externally, with only the one shop intrusion, and railings and balcony still in situ. The long building period did not lead to noticeable changes in detail. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 356; Buildings of England: Newman J & Pevsner N: Dorset: London: 1972-: 454). Listing NGR: SY6810279724

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