Description

PORTLAND

SY6873 HIGH STREET, Fortuneswell
969-1/3/108 (South side)
24/09/53 No.135
135 with front boundary wall

GV II

House at end of row. Late C17 or early C18. Portland ashlar,
asbestos- cement slate roof. Wide symmetrical frontage, 2
storeys and attic, 2-windowed. Two small raking dormers with
2-light casements above 3-light stone chamfer-mullion
casements to flush plat surrounds. Central C20 door under
slated stone gabled porch. Slightly raised verges, gable
stacks, to left, cropped to ridge level, to right with
capping. Back has 2 large C20 dormers but also small 2-light
casement in flush surround and small single light to first
floor; flat-roofed extension full width. Interior not
inspected, but said to retain plank and muntin partitions.
Subsidiary features: at front, to left, a boundary wall in
large square block and c 1.6m high, no coping, runs along the
party boundary to join lower (c 1m) front boundary wall with
central plain square stone piers to gateway. Interior said
(RCHM) to retain plank and muntin partitions. The end property
to the best remaining group in Underhill.
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London:
1970-: 255).

Listing NGR: SY6853173353

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501032

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