Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PORTLAND STREET
1208-1/7/315 (West side)
25/03/70 Nos.10 AND 12
and attached railings

GV II

Pair of houses, now house (to left) and flats (to right) and
attached railings. Numbered right to left, described left to
right. c1824, with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with
scored stucco facades to front and side, painted to right,
Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basements, and attics to rear, 2
first-floor windows arranged 1:1. First floor: 20-pane French
windows with 5-pane side-lights, that to left has blind box,
within wider, elliptically-arched, chamfered surround.
Second-floor band, four 6/6 sashes in moulded surrounds.
Frieze, cornice, blocking course. Ground floor, 3 steps to
central entrances (alike): 6-panel doors with overlights with
glazing bars, within surround of Doric pilasters with
entablature. 6/6 sashes within wider, elliptically-arched
surrounds with moulded architraves.
Basement has part-glazed, central doors, 3/6 sash to left,
replacement tripartite sash to right.
First floor has continuous balconies with figure-of-eight
motif.
INTERIOR: to left, staircase with stick balusters, marble
fireplace to ground floor, tiled fireplace to first floor.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet railings to sides of steps and
across front.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Portland Street was laid out 1823-1824; these
are reputed to be the first two houses to have been built.
The houses correspond in design with Nos 20A, 22-30 (even)
Regent Street and No.29 Portland Street (qqv).
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our Local Past .. of Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-: 140; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3153365936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688022

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