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Latitude: 50.5597 / 50°33'35"N
Longitude: -2.438 / 2°26'16"W
OS Eastings: 369069
OS Northings: 73424
OS Grid: SY690734
Mapcode National: GBR PZ.2TYP
Mapcode Global: FRA 57SL.80B
Plus Code: 9C2VHH56+VQ
Entry Name: Cistern on Slopes of the Verne at Ngr Sy 6907 7344
Listing Date: 17 May 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1206263
English Heritage Legacy ID: 382046
ID on this website: 101206263
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: Architectural structure
PORTLAND
SY6873 VERNE ROAD, Fortuneswell
969-1/3/129 (North side (off))
Cistern on slopes of The Verne at
NGR SY 6907 7344
II
Water supply cistern with monumental entrance in the hillside.
c 1880. Heavy rusticated rock-faced Portland stone with
drafted edges to blocks. A stone-vaulted chamber c 2.5m x 3.5m
x 3m high entered through a square opening with voussoirs with
drafted edges, part blocked in lower half by concrete block
wall. The approach has raking retaining walls to either side,
following the steep incline of the hill slope. Interior has
low segmental vault, a plinth, and 3 iron tie bars; at each
end are shaped recesses cut into wall, presumably to house
former pumping machinery. This cistern evidently served, inter
alia, a tank slightly lower on the slope, but concealed by
undergrowth and inaccessible at the time of survey (June
1991). Before the supply of piped water to the Island, this
storage cistern and its works would have been an important
installation.
Listing NGR: SY6906973424
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