Gloucester Row (Terrace) With Railings

WEYMOUTH

SY6879 ESPLANADE 873-1/21/153 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.93, 94 AND 95 Gloucester Row (terrace), with railings (Formerly Listed as: ESPLANADE Nos.93-99 (Consecutive) Gloucester Row)

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.7-13 ESPLANADE. Terrace of 3 houses. c1790 (RCHME). Rendered, slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement, each 3 windows, all plain sashes. Nos 93 & 95 have 2 hipped dormers, and No.94 has Victorian gabled dormers. The square second-floor sashes have been increased in size to No.94, cutting through the continuous sill band, and this property also has a large canted late Victorian sashed bay to the ground floor. Ground floors are rusticated. Nos 93 & 94 have 6-panel fielded doors under shallow elliptical fanlights, paired, in half-columns to fluted neckings and square capitals to a frieze and cornice; they are on 6 steps with nosings (No.93) or tiles (No.94). No.95 has a single door, to the left, the same, but with complete entablature, and on steps with nosings. The original balcony, on cast-iron brackets and with decorative balustrade remains to No.95, but has been removed from No.93. The middle property has a replacement balcony and balustrade above the bay. Moulded cornice, blocking course and parapet, deep brick stack to the right of No.94. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead railings with standards and returns to the doorway are retained to Nos 93 & 95, but have been replaced with later work to No.94. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 355).

Listing NGR: SY6802379460