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Latitude: 50.5598 / 50°33'35"N
Longitude: -2.4432 / 2°26'35"W
OS Eastings: 368699
OS Northings: 73436
OS Grid: SY686734
Mapcode National: GBR PZ.2L9V
Mapcode Global: FRA 57RL.CYW
Plus Code: 9C2VHH54+WP
Entry Name: Post Office
Listing Date: 17 May 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1205550
English Heritage Legacy ID: 381946
ID on this website: 101205550
Location: Fortuneswell, 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
Tagged with: Post office
PORTLAND
SY6873 FORTUNESWELL, Fortuneswell
969-1/3/97 (South West side)
No.79
Post Office
II
Commercial building, including Post Office. Dated 1894. Yellow
brick, stone dressings and enrichments in terra-cotta, slate
roof to clay cresting. Three storeys, 2 bays about central
plaques. At second floor are paired arched plate-glass sashes
in raised surrounds with bold keystones and pilasters to a
plat cill band above similar but larger windows under a drip
mould. Ground floor has 2 windows to deep-set doors in fluted
'Doric'pilasters, and a further C19 panelled door to segmental
head with keystone, all under bold cornice with cast iron
cresting. Deep brick stacks left and right. At first floor is
a stone plaque with POST OFFICE AD 1894, and at second floor a
terracotta panel with a head flanked by swags. At eaves level,
and partly into the extrados of the second floor arches a
terra-cotta frieze with roundels, and two-course dentils.
Plain pilasters left and right to upper two floors. A very
typical brash commercial design which has remained unaltered.
Listing NGR: SY6869973436
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