Description

PORTLAND

SY67SE GROVE ROAD, Grove
969-1/1/136 (North East side)
21/09/78 School House with rear boundary wall

GV II

School extension, former house of Assistant Governor, Portland
Prison. c 1870, possibly from office of Capt. Du Cane, RE.
Portland ashlar, slate roof. Compact L-plan, with slightly
set-forward wide gable, left, and set-back lower wing. Two
storeys, 1+1-windowed. Paired sashes with horizontal bar in
chamfer surrounds with stops to jambs and central mullion;
flush, deep chamfer cills. Coped gable with small roll mould
saddle stone above blind oculus in flush relieving arch.
Plinth, mid moulded string, moulded eaves, 3 large stacks on
moulded skirts and with heavy cappings to Lombard bands. The
set-back wing has two small sashes above a plank door in
arched opening with Romanesque mouldings, and drip course;
left return gable coped, with kneelers and central stack.
Right return has a tall stair window to right, the string
stepped below its cill. Subsidiary Features: At the rear of
the site is a lofty ashlar boundary wall incorporating a wide
blocked opening with rusticated quoins and voussoirs to
segmental head; this formerly an access from the house to the
adjoining prison. An important unit in a good group, set
between St. Peter's Church (qv) and Grove County Infants'
School (qv), and from its detailing clearly from the same
design office.

Listing NGR: SY6993272578

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570874

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)