Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PORTLAND STREET
1208-1/7/316 (East side)
25/03/70 No.17

GV II

Former Wesleyan Chapel, then (1870) school, now warehouse.
c1825-1834 with later additions and alterations. Designed by
William Thomas, built by John Toone, for Revd J Entwistle Jr.
Reddish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade, rubbed
red brick dressings to side facade, Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays with narrow, lower, single-bay
ranges to sides.
Main range, giant Tuscan pilasters clasp angles.
First floor: central projection; stepped first-floor band
surmounted by similar pilasters to angles of projections;
central arcade of 3 round-arched long windows each with 8-pane
sashes and Gothic glazing to heads, on continuous moulded sill
with Tuscan pilasters between and with tooled archivolts; to
outer bays are similar single windows in tooled architraves
and with moulded sills on anthemion feet. Entablature above
has frieze with 4 bay-leaf wreaths, blocking course and upshot
sloping to sides. Ground floor: wide central entrance in
cavetto-moulded surround with C20 garage doors; side
entrances: 2 steps to 10-fielded-panel doors in plain reveals,
architraves with acanthus consoles supporting cornice and
surmounted by flat, raised 'pediments'.
To side ranges, alike: tall, narrow 16-pane round-arched
windows with Gothic glazing to heads in plain reveals with
sills, frieze, cornice and blocking course, copings.
Returns, first floor has 8/8 sash then four 12/12 sashes with
cambered arches of red rubbed brick; ground floor has
round-arched windows with glazing-bars, now partly boarded in.
To rear gable an oculus.
To rear extension a similar arcade of three long, narrow
18-pane windows with radial glazing to heads, pediment.
INTERIOR: cast-iron columns remain to ground floor. Dado
remains to first floor; king post roof with hammer posts and
collar beams, 6 sets of roof timbers.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Portland Street was laid out 1823-1824.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39, 57, 164).

Listing NGR: SP3156965937

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661571

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)