1 And 2 With Boundary Wall And Steps

PORTLAND

SY6873 CASTLE ROAD, Fortuneswell 969-1/3/87 (East side) Nos.1 AND 2 1 and 2 with boundary wall and steps

GV II

Pair of houses, formerly police dwellings, attached to Police Station (qv), with front boundary wall. 1904. Rock-faced Portland stone, slate roofs. Set back from Police Station frontage, 2 storeys, 1+1-windowed. All tripartite sashes with flush chamfer surrounds and stone mullions; the central upper sash unit having two vertical glazing bars. To left and right good C19 panelled door under small plain transom light, in flush chamfer surround. Plinth, moulded mid string, continuous with adjacent properties, stone eaves course, raised coped verges left and right, and at party division. Brick stacks on rear slopes; projecting rear wings. Subsidiary features: Across front of property, as retaining wall behind pavement, wall in regular coursed rock-faced stone to plain parapet, rising c 2.2m, with left, 7 stone steps returning towards Police Station. Part of a significant composition, with no external change, and important on the skyline seen from the approach road from Victoria Square, below.

Listing NGR: SY6846573756