Tenastelion

Tenastelion is a pair of houses located at the end of a row on High Street in Fortuneswell, built in the mid-18th century. Constructed from Portland ashlar with a slate roof, these houses are of higher quality than most in the area. They feature a three-bay symmetrical front with coupled central doors leading to a formal classical portico. The buildings are two storeys tall with an attic, and they have two flat-roofed dormers above three plate-glass sash windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor. The windows are set in moulded stone architraves with swept feet on stooled cills. The central Roman Doric portico has three-quarter columns that support a fluted frieze and a moulded flat cornice, with two 20th-century intrusive doors flanked by a plain stone pilaster, all accessed by two stone steps. The houses have a plinth, rusticated alternating quoins, and a moulded stone eaves cornice, with raised coped verges to the kneelers. There is a rendered gable stack on the left and a brick stack on the right. The interior of No. 64 retains a fully panelled room on the first-floor front, featuring raised and fielded dado and main panels, a frieze with anthemion decoration, and a fireplace with a pulvinated frieze and eared architrave. Some panelled window shutters also remain.