Sentry Box With Gate Pier Circa 30 Metres West of North Entry to St Peter's Church
SENTRY BOX WITH GATE PIER CIRCA 30 METRES WEST OF NORTH ENTRY TO ST PETER'S CHURCH, INCLINE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205798
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Sentry Box With Gate Pier Circa 30 Metres West of North Entry to St Peter's Church
- Statutory Address:
- SENTRY BOX WITH GATE PIER CIRCA 30 METRES WEST OF NORTH ENTRY TO ST PETER'S CHURCH, INCLINE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205798
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Sentry Box With Gate Pier Circa 30 Metres West of North Entry to St Peter's Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- SENTRY BOX WITH GATE PIER CIRCA 30 METRES WEST OF NORTH ENTRY TO ST PETER'S CHURCH, INCLINE 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:
- SENTRY BOX WITH GATE PIER CIRCA 30 METRES WEST OF NORTH ENTRY TO ST PETER'S CHURCH, INCLINE 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 69879 72648
Details
PORTLAND
SY67SE INCLINE ROAD, Grove 969-1/1/143 (North West side) 21/09/78 Sentry box with gate pier c 30m W of N entry to St. Peter's Church
GV II
Sentry box to former prison work ground. Probably c 1848. Portland stone wall contains a box set in, with flush frontage; segmental head on chamfered jambs to plinth stop, a slate projecting course as weathering above opening to presumed projecting timber shelter, now removed. Interior c 600mm x 900mm. Subsidiary features: immediately to the left is a rhomboidal-shaped gate pier apparently from one very large Portland stone block; rises c 3.5m to pyramidal crown. Wall continues right with series of concrete buttresses for c 20m. Built in association with Portland Prison: the first convicts were brought here to quarry stone for the Breakwater (qv). (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 253).
Listing NGR: SY6987972648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381979
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 253
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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