Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6879 ESPLANADE
873-1/21/132 (West side)
12/12/53 No.52
York Buildings (terrace)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.1 YORK BUILDINGS.
House in row, part of a group of 7. c1785 (RCHME). Flemish
bond brickwork, tile roof.
3 storeys, attic and basement. A hipped tiled dormer above two
9-pane sashes to a deep flush sill band and sills, above a
storey-height tripartite 8:12:8-pane quasi-Palladian window at
first floor, with a central blind arch painted in, a frieze
and flush head and sill bands, over a skirt in 3 corresponding
panels above a similar less deep tripartite sash to the ground
floor, with a head band. The basement level has a central
barred sash, in a painted stone plinth. To the right, on 5
stone steps with nosings, is an early panelled door with
12-pane glazing, in a moulded architrave and with a frieze
plus dentil cornice. A frieze and moulded eaves cornice, and a
ridge stack to the left.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A very handsome property, little altered externally on this
principal front.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 354).

Listing NGR: SY6802879054

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26439111

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Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide