HM Young Offender Institution, Overseer's Hut With Inclines
HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, OVERSEER'S HUT WITH INCLINES, THE GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281834
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- HM Young Offender Institution, Overseer's Hut With Inclines
- Statutory Address:
- HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, OVERSEER'S HUT WITH INCLINES, THE GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281834
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- HM Young Offender Institution, Overseer's Hut With Inclines
- Statutory Address 1:
- HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, OVERSEER'S HUT WITH INCLINES, THE GROVE
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:
- HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, OVERSEER'S HUT WITH INCLINES, 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:
- SY7018572402
Details
PORTLAND
SY67SE
969-1/1/148
THE GROVE, Grove
(North side)
HM Young Offender Institution,
Overseer's Hut with inclines
GV
II
Overseer's hut. c 1848. Portland stone ashlar, including roof.
A small building set into ground slope to S, and facing N
opposite entry through N boundary wall (qv); a semi-octagonal
front has central C19 plank door to segmental head flanked in
the canted sides by single deep-set casements. Steep pitched
roof is in solid stone overlapping slabs, and over the door is
a small stone gablet projecting from the semi-octagonal
hipped roof. Back is plain, partly into bank. On either side
are approach inclines from the main prison level, in large
Portland stone setts, and with stone gutter sections on N
side. Interior not seen. This was provided for overseeing
activities by prisoners entering and leaving by the doorway
central to the N wall, and it is set on the central axis of
the whole complex aligned on the main gate (qv) to the S.
Listing NGR: SY7018572402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382039
- 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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