Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NW PORTLAND PLACE
1208-1/6/297 (South side)
25/03/70 Nos.6, 6A AND 8
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
PORTLAND PLACE
(South side)
Nos.6 AND 8)

GV II

Pair of houses, now houses and flat. Numbered right to left,
described left to right. c1824-1828, with later additions and
alterations including those of mid-late C19. Pinkish-brown
brick with painted stucco to front facade, Welsh slate roof
and cast-iron railings.
PLAN: double-depth with side entrances.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 5 first-floor window range,
arranged: 3-2, house to right having wide 2-storey bay, canted
to ground floor, rectangular to first floor.
First floor has 6/6 sash, blind opening, two 6/6 sashes, all
with plain reveals and sills, to right a wide rectangular bay
window with 2/2 sashes to centre and sides and dentil cornice.
Second floor has 3/6 sash, blind opening, two 3/6 sashes,
blind opening, 2/2 sash, all with plain reveals, sills. Ground
floor: 6 steps to side entrances, part-glazed 4-panel doors,
overlights with glazing-bars, in plain reveals and with Tuscan
pilastered surrounds, frieze, cornice. A canted bay to each
house, that to left has 6/6 sashes to centre and sides; that
to right supported on decorative 'Ionic' column has 2/2 sashes
to centre and sides.
Basement: late C20 glazed doors and casement window. Frieze,
low parapet, end and ridge stacks.
To rear: 2 full-height canted bays with 9/9, 6/6 and 3/6
sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet area railings and to sides of
steps.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Portland Place was laid out in 1823-4.
Nos 4-14 (even) Portland Place and Nos 52 & 54 Grove Street
(qqv) constitute an architectural group.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3137065793

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661552

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)