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Latitude: 50.5617 / 50°33'42"N
Longitude: -2.432 / 2°25'55"W
OS Eastings: 369499
OS Northings: 73637
OS Grid: SY694736
Mapcode National: GBR PZ.2PB7
Mapcode Global: FRA 57SL.4CJ
Plus Code: 9C2VHH69+M6
Entry Name: Governor's House
Listing Date: 21 September 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1281832
English Heritage Legacy ID: 382031
ID on this website: 101281832
Location: Portland Port, Dorset, DT5
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Portland
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Portland All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: House
SY6973
969-1/3/177
21/09/78
PORTLAND
THE CITADEL, The Verne
Governor's House
II
Detached house, formerly for Governor of the Verne Citadel. c
1870, by Col. Cox, RE. Ashlar, slate roof. A principal square
block with lower elements to east and north-west; main
entrance to south and secondary entrance to office in
north-west wing. Enclosed service yard to north. Main block is
two lofty storeys. Ground floor heavily rusticated, with
plinth, and plat bands at first floor and as cill band to
upper windows, heavy bracketted eaves to hipped roofs. Front
(south) is 3 windowed with glazing-bar sashes, arched to
ground floor and in projecting rusticated jambs and voussoirs;
this continued in set-back lower wing to right, in two bays,
but upper windows with raised semi-circular gables with
moulded coping. Panelled door to fanlight in bay 3 of main
block. Wing return to right has 1-storey hexagonal bay to
hipped roof under sash and gable as front; left return has 1
and 2-light casement at each level, then panelled door with
fanlight in rusticated jambs and voussoirs to small projecting
unit. Centre of main block has square stack with heavy
capping, and a further lofty stack on north side. The service
yard retains a coal bunker with shaped slab capping. Interior
not accessible. A very mannered design in an exposed position
near the south-east sally port to the fortress; unoccupied at
the time of survey (May 1991).
Listing NGR: SY6949973637
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