6 and 8, Fortuneswell is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1995. Pair of houses.
6 and 8, Fortuneswell
- WRENN ID
- heavy-gable-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1995
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- 6 and 8, Fortuneswell, Portland
- OS grid reference
- SY 689 733
- Coordinates
- 50.55869, -2.44021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
6 and 8 Fortuneswell are a pair of houses built around 1820 to 1830. They are constructed of stone rubble and have a stuccoed front with decorative plat bands. The houses feature a late 19th-century slate roof and brick ridge and end stacks. The design includes a double-depth plan with three storeys and a four-window front. The outer doors are panelled and set in heavy tripartite frames with sidelights and fanlights. The windows are margin-pane sashes, with two prominent two-storey canted bays in the centre. At the rear left, there is a two-storey wing with a hipped slate roof, brick walls, and glazing bar sashes. The interior has not been inspected. A stone-coped stone rubble wall is attached to pyramidal-capped ashlar gatepiers on the left side of No. 8. These houses are included for their group value with No. 4.
Local climate
6 and 8, Fortuneswell 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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