Description

PORTLAND

SY67SE INCLINE ROAD, Grove
969-1/1/143 (North West side)
21/09/78 Sentry box with gate pier c 30m W of
N entry to St. Peter's Church

GV II

Sentry box to former prison work ground. Probably c 1848.
Portland stone wall contains a box set in, with flush
frontage; segmental head on chamfered jambs to plinth stop, a
slate projecting course as weathering above opening to
presumed projecting timber shelter, now removed. Interior c
600mm x 900mm. Subsidiary features: immediately to the left is
a rhomboidal-shaped gate pier apparently from one very large
Portland stone block; rises c 3.5m to pyramidal crown. Wall
continues right with series of concrete buttresses for c 20m.
Built in association with Portland Prison: the first convicts
were brought here to quarry stone for the Breakwater (qv).
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London:
1970-: 253).

Listing NGR: SY6987972648

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501084

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)