Tenastelion
62, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203095
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Tenastelion
- Statutory Address:
- 62, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203095
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Tenastelion
- Statutory Address 1:
- 62, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TENASTELION, 64, HIGH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 62, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TENASTELION, 64, HIGH STREET
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 68591 73390
Details
PORTLAND
SY6873 HIGH STREET, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/106 (North side) 21/09/78 Nos.62 AND 64 Tenastelion (64)
GV II
Pair of houses at end of row. Mid C18. Portland ashlar, slate roof. A house of higher quality than most in the area, with a 3-bay symmetrical front and coupled central doors to formal classical portico. Two storeys and attic. Two 2-light flat-roofed dormers above 3 plate-glass sashes at first floor and 2 at ground floor; these in moulded stone architraves with swept feet on stooled cills. Central Roman Doric portico with three-quarter columns carrying fluted frieze and moulded flat cornice, with two C20 intrusive doors separated by a plain stone pilaster, all on two stone steps. Plinth, rusticated alternating quoins and moulded stone eaves cornice; raised coped verges to kneelers, rendered gable stack, left, and brick stack, right. Interior to No 64 retains, first-floor front, a fully panelled room, with dado and main panels raised and fielded, frieze with anthemion decoration, and fireplace with pulvinated frieze and eared architrave; some panelled window shutters also remain. (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 255).
Listing NGR: SY6859173390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 255
Legal
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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