Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500884

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)