1 AND 2 WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND STEPS

1 AND 2 WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND STEPS, 1 AND 2, CASTLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1203073
Date first listed:: 17-May-1993
List Entry Name:: 1 AND 2 WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND STEPS
Statutory Address:: 1 AND 2 WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND STEPS, 1 AND 2, CASTLE ROAD

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Date:: 2003-05-28
Reference:: IOE01/09421/18
Rights:: © Mr Reg Perry. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1203073
Date first listed:: 17-May-1993
List Entry Name:: 1 AND 2 WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND STEPS
Statutory Address 1:: 1 AND 2 WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND STEPS, 1 AND 2, CASTLE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1 AND 2 WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND STEPS, 1 AND 2, CASTLE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Portland
National Grid Reference:: SY 68465 73756

Details

PORTLAND

SY6873 CASTLE ROAD, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/87 (East side) Nos.1 AND 2 1 and 2 with boundary wall and steps

GV II

Pair of houses, formerly police dwellings, attached to Police Station (qv), with front boundary wall. 1904. Rock-faced Portland stone, slate roofs. Set back from Police Station frontage, 2 storeys, 1+1-windowed. All tripartite sashes with flush chamfer surrounds and stone mullions; the central upper sash unit having two vertical glazing bars. To left and right good C19 panelled door under small plain transom light, in flush chamfer surround. Plinth, moulded mid string, continuous with adjacent properties, stone eaves course, raised coped verges left and right, and at party division. Brick stacks on rear slopes; projecting rear wings. Subsidiary features: Across front of property, as retaining wall behind pavement, wall in regular coursed rock-faced stone to plain parapet, rising c 2.2m, with left, 7 stone steps returning towards Police Station. Part of a significant composition, with no external change, and important on the skyline seen from the approach road from Victoria Square, below.

Listing NGR: SY6846573756

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Legacy System number:: 381904
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.