Cistern on Slopes of the Verne at NGR SY 6907 7344
CISTERN ON SLOPES OF THE VERNE AT NGR SY 6907 7344, VERNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206263
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Cistern on Slopes of the Verne at NGR SY 6907 7344
- Statutory Address:
- CISTERN ON SLOPES OF THE VERNE AT NGR SY 6907 7344, VERNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206263
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Cistern on Slopes of the Verne at NGR SY 6907 7344
- Statutory Address 1:
- CISTERN ON SLOPES OF THE VERNE AT NGR SY 6907 7344, VERNE 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:
- CISTERN ON SLOPES OF THE VERNE AT NGR SY 6907 7344, VERNE 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 69069 73424
Details
PORTLAND
SY6873 VERNE ROAD, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/129 (North side (off)) Cistern on slopes of The Verne at NGR SY 6907 7344
II
Water supply cistern with monumental entrance in the hillside. c 1880. Heavy rusticated rock-faced Portland stone with drafted edges to blocks. A stone-vaulted chamber c 2.5m x 3.5m x 3m high entered through a square opening with voussoirs with drafted edges, part blocked in lower half by concrete block wall. The approach has raking retaining walls to either side, following the steep incline of the hill slope. Interior has low segmental vault, a plinth, and 3 iron tie bars; at each end are shaped recesses cut into wall, presumably to house former pumping machinery. This cistern evidently served, inter alia, a tank slightly lower on the slope, but concealed by undergrowth and inaccessible at the time of survey (June 1991). Before the supply of piped water to the Island, this storage cistern and its works would have been an important installation.
Listing NGR: SY6906973424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382046
- 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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