Description

PORTLAND

SY6873 THE CITADEL, The Verne
969-1/3/180 Reception Centre

GV II

Prison Reception Centre. c 1865, possibly by Capt. W.
Crossman, RE, general designer of The Citadel. Portland stone,
asbestos-cement slate roof. A single-storey L-plan structure,
the N/S wing projecting forward of the wing to its left; small
projecting porch to front and to right return at front corner.
Main front is 3+2 windows, all late C20 good glazing-bar
sashes with deep stooled cills. To left are three arched
lights, then arched doorway to right in projecting porch,
these all with heavy rusticated surrounds and keystones; to
right a pair of sashes in plain wall. Right return has arched
opening in projection, formerly door, now sash, and a door and
two further sashes, plus flat-roofed projection. Windows to
flat lintels have slightly rounded angles at the heads of
openings. Hipped low-pitch flat roofs, on modillion cornice,
and all set to high plain plinth, with rusticated quoins to
corners above plinth. Interior not accessible for inspection.
All carried out in the style characteristic of The Citadel in
the late C19, with excellent late C20 replacement sashes
worked by prisoners here.

Listing NGR: SY6919073671

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501404

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)