Description

PORTLAND

SY6873 FORTUNESWELL, Fortuneswell
969-1/3/102 (South West side)
No.17
Britannia Inn

II

Inn. Mid to late C19. Rendered, slate roof. Long L-plan with
main block to Hambro Road. Three storeys with basement,
2-windowed. At second floor 4-pane sashes in plat band,
blocked ends to cills, above deeper 4-pane sash with moulded
architrave and cornice, plain cill. Ground floor has original
part-glazed front in rusticated pilasters carrying full-width
fascia on 5-light wide window above 2 painted panels. To left
a C19 part glazed door with plain overlight, and with blocked
doorway, right. Bold moulded cornice and blocking course with
2 finials to raised centre with small scroll supporters. Brick
stacks to right eaves. Left, in Belle Vue Terrace, a 1+2
windowed frontage, with, left, 16-pane sashes in plat band at
two levels, then between pilasters, paired small 4-pane,
separated by panel with, in raised sans-serif BRITANNIA, over
an arched panel with flat shell motif and 'EPCo', all above
continuous cornice and fascia above 3 windows and 3 doors with
small-paned casements above glazed olive green wall tiling.
Pilasters to end of frontage and to doors. To right, at
second-floor level, a diamond set panel with arms above a bold
raised square panel with ELDRIDGE POPE & CO. An unaltered C19
pub design.

Listing NGR: SY6883873297

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500872

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)