The Old Rectory, With Boundary Walls
Old Rectory, with boundary walls, Old Hill, Fortuneswell, DT5 1LQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280485
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory, With Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- Old Rectory, with boundary walls, Old Hill, Fortuneswell, DT5 1LQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280485
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory, With Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Rectory, with boundary walls, Old Hill, Fortuneswell, DT5 1LQ
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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:
- Old Rectory, with boundary walls, Old Hill, Fortuneswell, DT5 1LQ
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 68871 73106
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 January 2025 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SY6873
969-1/3/128
PORTLAND
Fortuneswell
OLD HILL, (East side)
The Old Rectory, with boundary walls
(Formerly listed as Nos.1, 1A, AND 2 The Old Rectory, with boundary walls)
II
Rectory to St. George Reforne, later hotel, conversion to dwellings, 1991. C18 part includes symmetrical South East front; enlarged to North East and remodelled in 1825. Rendered and scribed, asbestos-cement slate roof. A long but compact hipped block set to high retaining terrace on north side. Two storeys and part basement; South East 3+1+2-windowed. Mainly 16-pane sashes, but C20 steel casement to ground-floor bays one and two, and 12-pane sashes to ground floor, bays five and six. Some early glass remains in first-floor windows. Centred to left half is good panelled door with fanlight in stone-cheeked porch to flat roof, then a mid-height stair window, and at head of intrusive C20 stair flight a C20 door. Two end and one gable stacks. North East front also six-windowed: 16-pane sashes at bays one/three/four/six, blind openings to two and five; ground storey has various altered windows, including arched light to bay five with plain overlight to C20 door. West end has added one-storey unit behind stepped gable walls north and south. Main block has moulded stone or rendered cornice to ovolo finish, on which is set square-edged lead gutter as a blocking course.
Interior not inspected.
Subsidiary Features: To the South West, attached to the end gable wall of No 1, a length of wall in cut block, with an interrupted saddle-back parapet forming crenellations, rising c 1.5m. After an opening, this returns, at c 1m height across the whole frontage of the property, continuing until it meets a range of C20 garages. A similar wall returns on the far side of the garages at an acute angle, running along the top of a retaining wall, all as the first stretch in detail. These walls are important in defining the historical site in an otherwise unstructured piece of townscape. Built as the Rectory to St. George, Reforne (qv), and enlarged to the North East in the early C19, the houses have a dramatic site on the scarp slope above Fortuneswell, and was bounded to the south, until its removal, by the Merchants' Railway.
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 253).
Listing NGR: SY6887173106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381995
- 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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