Wash Houses and Connecting Boundary Wall to Rear of Alma Terrace
WASH HOUSES AND CONNECTING BOUNDARY WALL TO REAR OF ALMA TERRACE, GROVE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205657
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wash Houses and Connecting Boundary Wall to Rear of Alma Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- WASH HOUSES AND CONNECTING BOUNDARY WALL TO REAR OF ALMA TERRACE, GROVE ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16601/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205657
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wash Houses and Connecting Boundary Wall to Rear of Alma Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- WASH HOUSES AND CONNECTING BOUNDARY WALL TO REAR OF ALMA TERRACE, GROVE ROAD
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:
- WASH HOUSES AND CONNECTING BOUNDARY WALL TO REAR OF ALMA TERRACE, GROVE 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 70008 72515
Details
PORTLAND
SY67SE GROVE ROAD, Grove 969-1/1/139 (East side) Wash houses and connecting boundary wall to rear of Alma Terrace
GV II
Five former wash houses, now stores, linked by continuous rear boundary wall. Probably 1854 (date of Terrace (qv)). Good dressed stone, slate roofs. Each unit has small single room with pent roof to raised rear parapet, and on plain stone eaves band. Each unit has a large 12-pane sash to deep stone cill, and, to far right, a C19 panelled door; back left is large stone stack in 2 stages with heavy capping. Interior retains copper boiler in brick sub-structure, stone floor. Boundary wall between units c 0.5m lower than rear parapets. These outbuildings are unusually grand, and are a reminder of the C19 social scene. They have been well restored with the houses to which they belong.
Listing NGR: SY7000872515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381960
- 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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