Post Office
POST OFFICE, 79, FORTUNESWELL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205550
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 79, FORTUNESWELL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205550
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 79, FORTUNESWELL
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:
- POST OFFICE, 79, FORTUNESWELL
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 68699 73436
Details
PORTLAND
SY6873 FORTUNESWELL, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/97 (South West side) No.79 Post Office
II
Commercial building, including Post Office. Dated 1894. Yellow brick, stone dressings and enrichments in terra-cotta, slate roof to clay cresting. Three storeys, 2 bays about central plaques. At second floor are paired arched plate-glass sashes in raised surrounds with bold keystones and pilasters to a plat cill band above similar but larger windows under a drip mould. Ground floor has 2 windows to deep-set doors in fluted 'Doric'pilasters, and a further C19 panelled door to segmental head with keystone, all under bold cornice with cast iron cresting. Deep brick stacks left and right. At first floor is a stone plaque with POST OFFICE AD 1894, and at second floor a terracotta panel with a head flanked by swags. At eaves level, and partly into the extrados of the second floor arches a terra-cotta frieze with roundels, and two-course dentils. Plain pilasters left and right to upper two floors. A very typical brash commercial design which has remained unaltered.
Listing NGR: SY6869973436
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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