Description

PORTLAND

SY6873 CASTLE ROAD, Fortuneswell
969-1/3/87 (East side)
Nos.1 AND 2
1 and 2 with boundary wall and steps

GV II

Pair of houses, formerly police dwellings, attached to Police
Station (qv), with front boundary wall. 1904. Rock-faced
Portland stone, slate roofs. Set back from Police Station
frontage, 2 storeys, 1+1-windowed. All tripartite sashes with
flush chamfer surrounds and stone mullions; the central upper
sash unit having two vertical glazing bars. To left and right
good C19 panelled door under small plain transom light, in
flush chamfer surround. Plinth, moulded mid string, continuous
with adjacent properties, stone eaves course, raised coped
verges left and right, and at party division. Brick stacks on
rear slopes; projecting rear wings.
Subsidiary features: Across front of property, as retaining
wall behind pavement, wall in regular coursed rock-faced stone
to plain parapet, rising c 2.2m, with left, 7 stone steps
returning towards Police Station. Part of a significant
composition, with no external change, and important on the
skyline seen from the approach road from Victoria Square,
below.

Listing NGR: SY6846573756

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498635

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings