The Esplanade, Weymouth - tourist train : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Esplanade, Weymouth - tourist train / ell brown
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| 説明 | It was such a nice day, that we headed to Weymouth and Portland. Lucky to have blue skys as well after previous rainy days.The only tourist train that I found in Dorset was here in Weymouth.It might go to the Weymouth Sealife Adventure Park.Gloucester Lodge is a Grade II* listed building.Gloucester Lodge with the Cork and Bottle Public House 85, WeymouthWEYMOUTHSY6779SE ESPLANADE873-1/20/149 (West side)12/12/53 No.85Gloucester Lodge, with The Cork andBottle Public House(Formerly Listed as:ESPLANADENo.85The Gloucester Hotel, Gloucester Row)GV II*Formerly known as: Gloucester Lodge GLOUCESTER ROW.House, later hotel, now apartments and public house. c1780,major extension to S c1850, interior destroyed by fire andremodelled 1927. Flemish bond brickwork with limestonedressings, slate roofs.PLAN: building is in 2 distinct units, which are describedseparately, although constituting one property. The mid C19block returns to Gloucester Street, and has 6 windows to thefront, but 4+3 to the rear, the end 3 bays being of greaterdepth than the remainder; the whole has a double mansard roofwith central valley.EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement. The Esplanade fronthas six 2-light dormers with segmental roofs over lunetteglazing, with haunched pilasters to the cheeks. First andsecond floor sashes have stone surrounds; at second floorthese are plat band, with a panelled stone apron linking tothe cornices above moulded architraves to first-floor deepsashes to a moulded sill band and small individual cast-ironbalconies. Ground floor has a deep projecting balcony withnear-flat roof in 7 large square bays (partly covering theadjoining range), on square pilasters, and each with 4vertical panes. The main wall plane has lofty segmental-headedsashes in painted surrounds and with keystones; bays 1 & 4have small-pane paired French doors under small-pane transomlights.The verandah is carried on cast-iron columns and brackets tothe basement, and the main wall has various doors and windows;this level is occupied by the Cork and Bottle public house. Aslight plinth, and a deep stone cornice on brackets.Return to Gloucester Street has single central sash at eachlevel, with dressings, and to the left a deep squareflat-roofed portico with a panelled door under decorativefanlight in an arch with keystone, architrave and responds, asmall arched light on each of the returns, and a stone frieze,cornice and blocking. A further stone cornice at first-floorsill level continues to the left over a one-storey projectingwing with wide brick pilasters to 2 blank arches, and with alarge glazed opening on the garden front.The main block has 2 deep stacks, and the principal cornice isreturned. The back of this range has raking sash dormers above4-pane sashes to brick voussoirs; a triple sash, with narrowside-lights and brick mullions, lights the principal stair.The right-hand range incorporates the originally 2-storey,8-bay house of 1780, now in 3 floors, 2 levels of attics, andbasement. The centre 4 bays are slightly recessed, with themain entrance now in bay 6.To the Esplanade is an upper range of 6 recessed dormers,above 7 at parapet level, all with paired sashes, but thecentral one with triple sash. First and second floors havesmall sashes, 12-pane at second floor and 6-pane below. At theground floor is a large Palladian window in each end bay, withglazing-bar sashes and radial heads, in narrow stonedressings. The recessed section has a deep 12-pane sash, doorwith transom light, deep 12-pane, and C20 doors on 8+2 stepsin a deep pedimented portico, brought to the pavement, andstopping the large glazed bays of the verandah. A smallmoulded stone cornice below the second-floor windows; theraised gables are coped, with large brick stacks.The rear has 4 upper dormers and 7 at parapet level, allflat-roofed. The main brick wall, to a plain parapet, containssmall glazing-bar sashes at each level; a group of 4 smalllights, in a slightly stepped unit, and 6 in the main unit.INTERIOR: not inspected.The original Gloucester Lodge, occupied by George III fromc1790, was the 8-bay right-hand range, in only 2 storeys andcellars; a photograph in 'Seaside Weymouth' (Attwooll andWest), shows the building in that state. It had a garden tothe S, now filled by the later range. It is important asrepresenting royal patronage, which was so vital in thevigorous growth of Weymouth.(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 355; Attwooll M &West J: Seaside Weymouth: Weymouth: 1989-: PL 6).Listing NGR: SY6800179373 |
| 撮影日 | 2012-05-01 11:34:07 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Weymouth, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/240) |
| 開放F値 | f/7.1 |