Description

SK 67 NE ELKESLEY HIGH STREET
(south side)

2/42 Portland Farmhouse
and attached
garden walls
and pavilions

G.V. II

Farmhouse and attached walls and pavilions. C18, remodelled
early C19 with C20 addition. Rendered brick. Slate roof, hipped
to the right. Left gable and single right rendered stacks.
Coved wooden cornice. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central C20 render and
pantile gabled closed porch with barge board and wooden door in
the right wall. To the right is a single glazing bar sash and to
the left a single similar sash, above are 3 similar sashes. To
the right, set back, is a lower 2 storey, 2 bay wing set on a
plinth with single right gable stack and eaves band. Doorway
with C20 door and arched overlight, to the right is a single
glazing bar sash with a single, similar sash above. To the rear
are further 2 storey wings. Extending from the porch for 8
metres is a red brick concrete balustraded wall broken by a
doorway with wooden door flanked by single ashlar coped piers.
The wall turns at a right angle, becomes plain brick coped, and
extends for 55 metres south, 30 metres west and 55 metres north
forming a quadrangle with the house. The south side is broken by
a doorway with wooden door under segmental arch. The east and
west sides each have single red brick and pantile gabled
pavilions with dentil eaves and imposts and arched entrance.
The east pavilion has the remains of a crocketed ashlar finial.
The west side is broken by a doorway with wooden door under a
segmental arch flanked by single ashlar coped piers with ashlar
finials, there is a further part blocked opening flanked by
single similar piers and finials. To the right of the west
pavilion is a projecting brick, wood and glass lean-to
greenhouse, a one and a half storey brick and pantile outbuilding
with dogtooth eaves and single glazing bar fixed light on the
first floor, set back is a second outbuilding and further right
is the gable of another outbuilding. The remainder of the wall
is coped with ashlar and there is a further doorway with wooden
door.

Listing NGR: SK6889075500

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26557437

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)