Portland House
PORTLAND HOUSE, 188, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037657
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Portland House
- Statutory Address:
- PORTLAND HOUSE, 188, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037657
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Portland House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTLAND HOUSE, 188, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PORTLAND HOUSE, 188, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newmarket
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6400663139
Details
TL 6463 and TL 66 SW
7/106 and 4/106
NEWMARKET (including EXNING)
HIGH STREET
No 188 (Portland House)
GV
II
House. Early C19. 5 windows, 3 storeys. Stuccoed walls,
channeled up to 1st floor, flat terminal pilasters with mounted
capital and base from 1st floor up to eaves; moulded wooden eaves
cornice. Slated roof with chimneys of gault brick. A pair of
splayed C19 bays at ground floor, with flat roof and modillion
eaves. Sash windows to upper floors with replacement large-pane
sashes. To right a pair of carriage-entrance doors, each having
9 panels and flanking flat pilaster. Corbelled out above the
entrance a splayed bay rising through 2 storeys, with sash
windows and flat roof.
Listing NGR: TL6400663139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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