HM Young Offender Institution, North and East Boundary Walls
HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS, THE GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280342
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- HM Young Offender Institution, North and East Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS, THE GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280342
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- HM Young Offender Institution, North and East Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS, THE GROVE
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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:
- HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY WALLS, THE GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY7018472409
Details
PORTLAND
SY67SE
969-1/1/149
THE GROVE, Grove
(North side)
HM Young Offender Institution, N and
E boundary walls
GV
II
Boundary walls to N and E sides of prison complex. 1848 and
later. Portland stone ashlar or coursed stone. Wall is in
three sections; from NW corner of the compound, immediately
adjoining boundary wall to the W (qv), a 5-bay section with
trapezoidal raised sections over broad flat buttresses
externally with segmental link at W end and c 40m to E with
broad gateway to segmental arch, voussoirs and keystone over
heavy plank framed doors forming main N entry, and immediately
N of entrance to E Hall (qv). Wall c 6m high then drops to top
level of plain section across full width of site at lower
level, here c 5m high, and with two arched openings containing
heavy plank doors, one of these at centre, immediately N of
Overseer's Hut (qv). At E end rises again and returns to S
with long plain wall parallel with E cell block (qv), and a
final canted section of c 25m to N of the Chapel. These
containing walls are significant as part of the overall
ensemble of Victorian prison buildings which they enclose;
they are interrupted by late C20 structures in the SE
quadrant, where considerable damage occurred during World War
II.
Listing NGR: SY7018472409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382040
- 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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