137 and 139 with Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Houses.
137 and 139 with Front Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- south-plinth-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 137 and 139 with Front Boundary Wall, High Street, Portland
- OS grid reference
- SY 685 733
- Coordinates
- 50.55909, -2.44569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
137 and 139 are a pair of houses located on the south side of High Street in Fortuneswell, Portland. They were probably built in the mid-18th century but were re-fenestrated in the early 19th century. The houses are constructed from Portland ashlar and have a slate roof. They likely started as one house, featuring mullioned windows similar to the adjoining No. 135, but are now divided into two small properties.
The buildings are two storeys tall with an attic, each having one window. The windows are set within flush plaster band surrounds; No. 137 has 6-pane windows, while No. 139 has 15-pane sash windows. Only No. 139 features a raking dormer with a 12-pane sash window. There are central paired doors beneath the remains of a moulded architrave from the former entrance: No. 137 has a 19th-century four-panel moulded door, and No. 139 has a 6-panel part-glazed door.
To the right of the houses is a stone stack with a skirt and capping, and a brick stack is located to the left. The interior has not been inspected. A notable feature of the property is a boundary wall made of large stone blocks, approximately 1.3 meters high, which runs forward to a low front boundary. This pair of houses is considered one of the best remaining groups in the Underhill area.
Local climate
137 and 139 with Front Boundary Wall receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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