Alexandra Hotel, Clarence Buildings (Terrace)

The Alexandra Hotel, located in Clarence Buildings on the Esplanade in Weymouth, is a pair of late 18th-century houses that have been converted into a hotel. The building is rendered and features a slate roof. It is set back approximately 3 meters from the adjacent properties and has been slightly altered from its original design by removing one doorway and breaking through the party wall, although both staircases remain intact.

The structure has three storeys and an attic, with a total of six windows on the front, all of which are plain sashes framed in flat architraves. There are two small hipped dormers and two Victorian gabled dormers with decorative barge-boards and finials. Notably, the first- and second-floor sashes in No.27 are deeper than those in No.28, with all windows aligning to a sill band at the second floor and extending down to the plat band at the first floor in No.27. The ground floor features an arched doorway in the third bay, adorned with a moulded architrave above a plain fanlight and a panelled door. The former doorway to No.28 has been replaced with a sash window that matches the others.

The exterior is finished with a cornice band, a blocking course, and a coped parapet, along with four gable stacks on the double ridge roof. The rear wall includes margin-pane lights at the ground floor and two gabled dormers, as well as a wide three-light raking dormer and an early hipped dormer.

Inside, the staircases are made of wood. The staircase in No.27 extends to full height and features half and quarter landings with some winders, complemented by stick balusters and a handrail with wreathing. The staircase in No.28 has square capped newels and a balustrade with a 'chinoiserie' design.