Listed Building: HM YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTION, OVERSEER'S HUT WITH INCLINES (382039)

PORTLAND SY67SE THE GROVE, Grove 969-1/1/148 (North side) HM Young Offender Institution, Overseer's Hut with inclines GV II Overseer's hut. c 1848. Portland stone ashlar, including roof. A small building set into ground slope to S, and facing N opposite entry through N boundary wall (qv); a semi-octagonal front has central C19 plank door to segmental head flanked in the canted sides by single deep-set casements. Steep pitched roof is in solid stone overlapping slabs, and over the door is a small stone gablet projecting from the semi- octagonal hipped roof. Back is plain, partly into bank. On either side are approach inclines from the main prison level, in large Portland stone setts, and with stone gutter sections on N side. Interior not seen. This was provided for overseeing activities by prisoners entering and leaving by the doorway central to the N wall, and it is set on the central axis of the whole complex aligned on the main gate (qv) to the S. Listing NGR: SY7011072467

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