Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
Post Office
- WRENN ID
- over-slate-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1993
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PORTLAND
SY6873 FORTUNESWELL, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/97 (South West side) No.79 Post Office
II
Commercial building, including Post Office. Dated 1894. Yellow brick, stone dressings and enrichments in terra-cotta, slate roof to clay cresting. Three storeys, 2 bays about central plaques. At second floor are paired arched plate-glass sashes in raised surrounds with bold keystones and pilasters to a plat cill band above similar but larger windows under a drip mould. Ground floor has 2 windows to deep-set doors in fluted 'Doric'pilasters, and a further C19 panelled door to segmental head with keystone, all under bold cornice with cast iron cresting. Deep brick stacks left and right. At first floor is a stone plaque with POST OFFICE AD 1894, and at second floor a terracotta panel with a head flanked by swags. At eaves level, and partly into the extrados of the second floor arches a terra-cotta frieze with roundels, and two-course dentils. Plain pilasters left and right to upper two floors. A very typical brash commercial design which has remained unaltered.
Listing NGR: SY6869973436
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