Description

PORTLAND

SY6873 CHISWELL, Fortuneswell
969-1/3/199 (North side)
23/07/75 No.120

GV II

House at lower end of short row, adjoining No 145 High Street
(qv) on its higher (left-hand) side. Early C19, some parts
possibly earlier. Large squared coursed block, partly
rendered; slate or concrete slate roofs and stone ridge stack.
One-unit to left of 2-unit plan. Small 2-storey one-window
unit, formerly a store or warehouse, has 4-pane casement above
a plank door in stone-cheeked porch with concrete slab top.
3-storey unit to right has one-window front with 16-pane
sashes. This returns to a raised parapet front with C20
casement at each of three floors and deep-set door to left.
Rear is plain, with a lean-to. The building steps down the
steep incline at this point in High Street, and the return
front faces down into Chiswell, holding an important position
in the townscape.

Listing NGR: SY6846373403

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498638

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (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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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)