No 163 with Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1975. House.

No 163 with Front Boundary Wall

WRENN ID
turning-timber-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 July 1975
Type
House
Address
No 163 with Front Boundary Wall, High Street, Portland
OS grid reference
SY 684 733
Coordinates
50.55945, -2.44631
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 163 is a mid-19th century house located in a row on High Street, Fortuneswell. It is constructed of rubble with a slate roof and stands two storeys high, featuring a single window. The upper storey has a 4-pane sash window, while the lower storey has paired 4-pane sashes beneath a wooden lintel, which may indicate that it was once a shop front. To the left of the building is a 6-panel part-glazed door with an overlight. There is a brick stack on the right side, a plain gable to the left, and a deep pent extension at the rear. The interior has not been inspected. The front of the house includes a small stone-paved terrace with a rubble retaining wall topped by a simple iron railing, and there are four concrete steps leading up to the door. The property has been recently restored, and the details are sympathetic to the original design, especially in relation to the adjoining Nos. 159 and 161.

Local climate

No 163 with Front Boundary Wall 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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