A popular Weymouth Wetherspoon pub is set to close for nearly four weeks for extensive refurbishments.

The William Henry on Frederick Place is set to undergo £490,000 worth of renovation works from Monday, March 6 to Friday, March 31.

Renovations will be carried out to both the interior and exterior of the premises and due to the large scale of the works, will see the pub shut for the four-week period.

A spokesperson for JD Wetherspoon said: “The works will consist of the removal of the lower bar which will be replaced with additional seating, an exterior redecoration, featuring new signage, render repairs and a repaint, the Westham road elevation windows will also be replaced as well as a new bar.”

The pub will also see a full internal redecoration as well as upgraded staff facilities and a complete replacement of its existing dilapidated timber shopfront exterior with a new ‘like for like’ timber shopfront, formed oak or similar hardwood timber on the Frederick Place and Westham Road sides, likewise, the external doors will be replaced with a ‘like for like’ hardwood, double door stained finish.

The popular town-centre pub, which is one of two from the JD Wetherspoon franchise in the area, was initially part of a terrace of 12 houses, built in 1834 in the gardens of Gloucester Lodge, owned by Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and brother of George III.

The king’s visits to the lodge turned Weymouth into a fashionable resort and Richard Bower, twice mayor of Weymouth, lived in these premises from the 1830s to the 1870s.