Description

PORTLAND

SY6873 CLEMENT'S LANE, Chesil
969-1/3/22 (South East side)
Conjuror's Lodge

II

Workshop and store. Late C18 or early C19. Squared and dressed
stone front, rubble returns, corrugated asbestos-cement roof.
A long narrow building in two storeys set gable to street,
with loading-bay door centrally to first floor above larger
pair of C20 doors in plat band surround, offset to right at
ground floor. Raised verge, dressed flush alternating quoins.
To right a straight-flight stone external flight of steps with
stone balustrade rises to door at first floor. Towards back a
glazing bar sash at each level. This property is reputed to
have been used during the C19 by a breakaway Dissenting sect,
whence its strange name. A rare surviving example of this
building type on Portland, which, like Ranter's Lodge (q.v.),
has historical interest in tracing the development of
non-conformity which was an important facter in the island's
social history.

Listing NGR: SY6838473574

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Conjurer's Lodge at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q19587170

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]