Maiden Well
MAIDEN WELL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281862
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Maiden Well
- Statutory Address:
- MAIDEN WELL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281862
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Maiden Well
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIDEN WELL, HIGH STREET
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:
- MAIDEN WELL, HIGH STREET
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 68514 73394
Details
PORTLAND
SY6873 HIGH STREET, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/115 (North side) Maiden Well
II
Remains of boundary wall and well head or cistern. Probably C18. A small square construction in rough squared Portland block set at the side of High Street opposite the right hand boundary to The Captain's House (qv). About 2m x 1.7m x 1.5m high, with stone slab top; behind this remains of stone block wall rises 6 courses above bank for c 8m width, stepped at S end. This looks rather like a mounting block, but is the remains of one of the water sources which were so important to the Island until the bringing of piped water in 1900. None of the formal well heads has survived, so that this modest remnant has historical interest.
Listing NGR: SY6851473394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381975
- 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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