Sentry Box With Gate Pier Circa 30 Metres West Of North Entry To St Peter'S Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Sentry box.

Sentry Box With Gate Pier Circa 30 Metres West Of North Entry To St Peter'S Church

WRENN ID
stark-soffit-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Country
England
Type
Sentry box
Source
Historic England listing

Description

PORTLAND

SY67SE INCLINE ROAD, Grove 969-1/1/143 (North West side) 21/09/78 Sentry box with gate pier c 30m W of N entry to St. Peter's Church

GV II

Sentry box to former prison work ground. Probably c 1848. Portland stone wall contains a box set in, with flush frontage; segmental head on chamfered jambs to plinth stop, a slate projecting course as weathering above opening to presumed projecting timber shelter, now removed. Interior c 600mm x 900mm. Subsidiary features: immediately to the left is a rhomboidal-shaped gate pier apparently from one very large Portland stone block; rises c 3.5m to pyramidal crown. Wall continues right with series of concrete buttresses for c 20m. Built in association with Portland Prison: the first convicts were brought here to quarry stone for the Breakwater (qv). (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 253).

Listing NGR: SY6987972648

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