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Governor's House with Front Boundary Wall

A Grade II Listed Building in Grove, Dorset

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Latitude: 50.549 / 50°32'56"N

Longitude: -2.4221 / 2°25'19"W

OS Eastings: 370192

OS Northings: 72223

OS Grid: SY701722

Mapcode National: GBR PZ.PD0K

Mapcode Global: FRA 57TM.273

Plus Code: 9C2VGHXH+J5

Entry Name: Governor's House with Front Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 17 May 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1281835

English Heritage Legacy ID: 382045

ID on this website: 101281835

Location: Grove, Dorset, DT5

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Portland

Built-Up Area: Grove

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Portland All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description



PORTLAND

SY67SE THE GROVE, Grove
969-1/1/154 (South side)
No.102
Governor's House with front boundary
wall

GV II

Detached house, formerly Governor's House to the prison. c
1850. Rubble or squared rubble, slate roof. A broad-frontage
house direct to the pavement, originally a compact square
block, with prominent central bay on garden front, later
extended each end on N side. Two storeys and basement,
2:3:1-windowed. To the left are 2 blanked window bays, then
three 12-paned sashes above 2 sashes, one of these with brick
jambs. The first-floor windows in this middle section are
raised in part-dormers above eaves level, with hipped roofs
and corbelled dressed stone surrounds. To the right, in a
gabled section, a 12-pane sash in dressed stone raised
surround with capping and with bracketted cill, above a
12-pane sash. Off-centre, left, a C20 door with small transom
light in pilaster surround with moulded cornice. A plain mid
string continues round the whole building. Lofty central ridge
stack and smaller stack to right ridge, both with thin moulded
capping and blocking course. Right return is rendered, with
single and paired sashes at first floor,and a sash plus door
under glazed lean-to porch at ground floor level. There is to
the right a length of boundary wall to the street containing
plank door in brick jambs. The S, or garden front has central
3-window section with hipped canted full-height bay, and
12-pane sashes at each level, those to first floor with
part-dormers and dressings as on the N side; at ground floor 2
replaced with french doors. A flat-roofed 2-storey unit added,
left. Two further lofty stacks. To the right, set back, is the
wing extending the street front; a steel escape stair has been
added. This is an important part of the group of prison
buildings, with a visually significant position at the
junction between Grove Road and The Grove.


Listing NGR: SY7019272223

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