Royal Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1953. Terrace house.
Royal Terrace
- WRENN ID
- gilded-plinth-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1953
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- Royal Terrace, 81, Esplanade, Weymouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 679 793
- Coordinates
- 50.61256, -2.45414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 81 Royal Terrace is a terrace house located in Weymouth, built in 1816. It features Flemish bond brickwork and a slate roof. The house has a one-room width and a double-depth plan, with a double roof over a central valley. There is a side entry that leads to a rear dogleg staircase and a low service range. The building stands three storeys tall, with an attic and basement, which becomes a full storey at the back due to the sloping ground.
At the front, there are two small flat-roofed dormers with two-light casements above plain sash windows, with the first-floor windows taken down to floor level. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front that conceals the basement, featuring an arched doorway to the left. A plain band runs along the first floor, topped by a moulded cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet, with two chimney stacks to the right. The rear of the house has a large 20th-century brick flat-roofed extension.
Royal Terrace originally consisted of 18 houses built in two phases, with this house being part of the first phase. A straight joint in the face brickwork between this house and the adjacent No. 80 indicates that the buildings were not continuous even in this phase. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Royal Terrace receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
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