Description

PORTLAND

SY6873 FORTUNESWELL, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/101 (West side) New Star Inn

II

Public house, end of street row. Early or mid C19 with early C20 pub front. Rendered, slate roof. Two storeys and basement, 2-windowed. Large 16-pane sashes in moulded architraves, plain stone cills on moulded brackets, and a central decorative cartouche. At ground floor a full- width pub front, symmetrical with central pair of part-glazed margin- paned doors under twin-arched overlight with central baluster. To each side are 2 pairs of casements with triple overlights all to a moulded frieze and architrave on heavy paired end consoles and with central flat segmental pediment; the consoles above brought forward pilasters. All carried out in dark glazed brick. Parapet with thin coping, coped verges, brick stacks, rendered to right. Plain return. A forceful and unaltered frontage characteristic of its era.

Listing NGR: SY6862573524

External Links

• Wikidata Q26498650

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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