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The Portland Road Hotel was situated on Castletown.

From Dorset Heritage:

A three storey hotel and public house that dates from the late 19th century with an early to mid-20th century addition to the rear. The public rooms form much of the front half of the building, with bedrooms above, while the private accommodation which has now been incorporated into the public house is to the left (east) end of the building. It is built of brick with terracotta, glazed tile and stone dressings in a typical late 19th century fashion. The hipped roof is clad in slate and has large brick stacks. The principal elevation fronts onto the road and is of five bays with doorways in the second and fourth bays. The ground floor is clad in glazed tiles and the bays are defined by pilasters to the ground floor that are also faced with brown and gold glazed tiles laid in contrasting horizontal bands. The second bay from the right breaks forwards and has a doorway with pilastered architrave and a semi-circular overlight with projecting keystone and floral relief to the spandrels. Large consoles flank the entrance and, with the banded pilasters, support an entablature. At first floor, the entrance bay is faced in buff terracotta with a tripartite window with terracotta mullions and an Art Nouveau J A DEVENISH & CO in a panel above, supported on decorative pilasters that flank the window. The ground floor windows and interior were remodelled in the late 20th century.

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