Gordon House, Augusta Place (Terrace) with Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1974. House, offices.
Gordon House, Augusta Place (Terrace) with Railings
- WRENN ID
- low-truss-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1974
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- Gordon House, Augusta Place (Terrace) with Railings, 46, Esplanade, Weymouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 680 789
- Coordinates
- 50.60982, -2.45306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gordon House, at the end of the terrace, was originally a house and later part of the Weymouth Hotel, now offices. The building was constructed in the mid-18th century, with the Esplanade frontage redesigned in the mid-19th century. It is rendered with a slate hipped roof concealed behind a parapet. The main facade is accessed from Bond Street.
The Esplanade front has a three-storey canted oriel with plain sash windows, and a modillion cornice to the top floor. At basement level, a four-pane sash window and a door are enclosed by spearhead iron railings, with a gate at the left-hand end leading to stone basement steps. The Bond Street front has blind openings in the first two bays on each level, with a sash window containing a grille at pavement level. Remaining windows are plain sashes, square to the second floor and deeper below, set in plain reveals with rendered keystones and stone sills. A 20th-century glazed door is centrally located, approached by six steeply nosed steps with deep panelled reveals, and set within a Gibbsian surround. A modillion cornice, blocking course, and parapet are present, with an early rainwater hopper to the right.
The interior was restored in 1992 and was previously described as being close to collapse. It has been substantially restructured. The central staircase features turned balusters, square newels and treads with scrolled ends, replicating earlier detail. The Chinese trellis previously recorded is no longer in place. The original single rooms on either side of the staircase have been partially sub-divided. The basic layout and proportions of the north, Bond Street front reflect the earlier construction, although the original bow on the Esplanade front was replaced in the 19th century with the current canted version.
Local climate
Gordon House, Augusta Place (Terrace) with Railings 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings