Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PORTLAND STREET
1208-1/7/311 (West side)
25/03/70 No.4
and attached balustrade

GV II

Villa, now club. c1824-1836 with later additions and
alterations including later-C19 and mid-C20 additions to rear.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades with Welsh
slate roof and cast-iron balustrade.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, 3 first-floor windows, and
with 2-lower-storey, single recessed bay to left. Main range:
continuous first-floor band surmounted by Doric pilasters to
ends and between windows with frieze, cornice and blocking
course; 10-pane French windows with margin-lights. Ground
floor: 6 steps to central entrance a part-glazed, panelled
door with fanlight with radial glazing bars, within distyle
Doric porch with engaged pilasters, frieze. Bow windows to
outer bays rise from basement through ground floor: blind to
basement and each with two 6/6 sashes to ground floor.
Basement has central entrance a 4-panel door. Left bay has
4-panel door with overlight and 2-pane sashes. End stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area balustrade and to sides of porch has
paterae-and-anthemion motif.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Portland Street was laid out 1823-4.
Nos 2-8 Portland Street (qqv) form an architectural group.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3152865984

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661566

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