Royal Terrace

Royal Terrace in Weymouth consists of five houses built in 1816. The buildings are rendered, except for No.80, which is constructed in Flemish bond brickwork, and they feature slate roofs. The layout includes one room in width and double depth, with a double roof over a central valley and a side entry leading to a rear dogleg stair and lower service range.

The terrace stands three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and rises to a full fourth storey at the rear due to the sloping ground. Each house has three windows with plain sash designs, and there are two late 19th-century gabled dormers with decorative barge-boards and finials. No.76 retains glazing bars on its nine-pane windows at the second floor, but has a full-width 20th-century display window at the first floor. The first-floor windows in the other houses extend down to floor level, and former balconies have been removed from all four units. No.80 features individual railed balconies, while all ground floors have full-width 20th-century shop fronts that conceal the basement storeys.

Architectural details include a plain band at the first floor, a moulded cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet with two stacks on the right party walls. At the rear, No.76 has been modified, No.77 features a good raking dormer, No.78 has two late 19th-century dormers and a brick hipped service wing, No.79 includes a raking dormer and a 20th-century extension, and No.80 has a paired two-light early raking dormer. The rear wall is parapeted. Originally, Royal Terrace consisted of 18 houses built in two phases; this group belongs to the first phase and has lost some original features such as glazing bars, balconies, and details at the ground floor and basement. A straight joint in the brickwork between No.80 and the adjacent No.81 indicates that construction was not continuous even during the first phase. The interior has not been inspected.