120, CHISWELL

120, CHISWELL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1203077
Date first listed:
23-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:
120, CHISWELL
Statutory Address:
120, CHISWELL
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1203077
Date first listed:
23-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:
120, CHISWELL
Statutory Address 1:
120, CHISWELL

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
120, CHISWELL

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 68463 73403

Details

PORTLAND

SY6873 CHISWELL, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/199 (North side) 23/07/75 No.120

GV II

House at lower end of short row, adjoining No 145 High Street (qv) on its higher (left-hand) side. Early C19, some parts possibly earlier. Large squared coursed block, partly rendered; slate or concrete slate roofs and stone ridge stack. One-unit to left of 2-unit plan. Small 2-storey one-window unit, formerly a store or warehouse, has 4-pane casement above a plank door in stone-cheeked porch with concrete slab top. 3-storey unit to right has one-window front with 16-pane sashes. This returns to a raised parapet front with C20 casement at each of three floors and deep-set door to left. Rear is plain, with a lean-to. The building steps down the steep incline at this point in High Street, and the return front faces down into Chiswell, holding an important position in the townscape.

Listing NGR: SY6846373403

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Legacy System number:
381919
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.

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