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3, with Boundary Wall

A Grade II Listed Building in Fortuneswell, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.5626 / 50°33'45"N

Longitude: -2.4466 / 2°26'47"W

OS Eastings: 368463

OS Northings: 73742

OS Grid: SY684737

Mapcode National: GBR PY.HRC0

Mapcode Global: FRA 57RL.4MX

Plus Code: 9C2VHH73+29

Entry Name: 3, with Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 17 May 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1205290

English Heritage Legacy ID: 381905

ID on this website: 101205290

Location: Chiswell, Dorset, DT5

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Portland

Built-Up Area: Fortuneswell

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Portland All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


PORTLAND

SY6873 CASTLE ROAD, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/88 (East side) No.3 3, with boundary wall.

GV II

House at end of short terrace, formerly police housing, and attached to Police Station (qv). 1904. Rock-faced Portland stone, ashlar dressings, slate roofs. A twin-gabled unit in 2 storeys, each 1-windowed. Small ventilator in coped gable above tripartite sashes in flush chamfer surrounds. The central upper sash with two vertical bars. Central good panelled door under small plain transom light. Plinth, moulded mid string, continuous with Nos 1 and 2 (qv) adjoining; central cast-iron downpipe discharges to long hopper-head at mid-string level. Large square brick stacks just off ridge level. Subsidiary features: Across frontage a boundary wall in regular rock-faced stone to plain coping, continuous with boundary wall to Nos 1 and 2. Part of a significant composition, with no external change, and important on the skyline seen from the approach road from Victoria Square, below.

Listing NGR: SY6846373742

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