GOVERNOR'S HOUSE WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL

GOVERNOR'S HOUSE WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 102, THE GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281835
Date first listed:: 17-May-1993
List Entry Name:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 102, THE GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281835
Date first listed:: 17-May-1993
List Entry Name:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 102, THE GROVE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GOVERNOR'S HOUSE WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 102, 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:: SY 70192 72223

Details

PORTLAND

SY67SE THE GROVE, Grove 969-1/1/154 (South side) No.102 Governor's House with front boundary wall

GV II

Detached house, formerly Governor's House to the prison. c 1850. Rubble or squared rubble, slate roof. A broad-frontage house direct to the pavement, originally a compact square block, with prominent central bay on garden front, later extended each end on N side. Two storeys and basement, 2:3:1-windowed. To the left are 2 blanked window bays, then three 12-paned sashes above 2 sashes, one of these with brick jambs. The first-floor windows in this middle section are raised in part-dormers above eaves level, with hipped roofs and corbelled dressed stone surrounds. To the right, in a gabled section, a 12-pane sash in dressed stone raised surround with capping and with bracketted cill, above a 12-pane sash. Off-centre, left, a C20 door with small transom light in pilaster surround with moulded cornice. A plain mid string continues round the whole building. Lofty central ridge stack and smaller stack to right ridge, both with thin moulded capping and blocking course. Right return is rendered, with single and paired sashes at first floor,and a sash plus door under glazed lean-to porch at ground floor level. There is to the right a length of boundary wall to the street containing plank door in brick jambs. The S, or garden front has central 3-window section with hipped canted full-height bay, and 12-pane sashes at each level, those to first floor with part-dormers and dressings as on the N side; at ground floor 2 replaced with french doors. A flat-roofed 2-storey unit added, left. Two further lofty stacks. To the right, set back, is the wing extending the street front; a steel escape stair has been added. This is an important part of the group of prison buildings, with a visually significant position at the junction between Grove Road and The Grove.

Listing NGR: SY7019272223

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Legacy System number:: 382045
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.