Portland House
PORTLAND HOUSE, 21, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208901
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Portland House
- Statutory Address:
- PORTLAND HOUSE, 21, PORTLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208901
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Portland House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTLAND HOUSE, 21, PORTLAND 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, 21, PORTLAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 52069 47670
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5247 PORTLAND STREET 853-1/7/110 (North side) No.21 Portland House
GV II
Residential care home for the elderly, formerly a private house. Early to mid C19. MATERIALS: rendered, solid walls. Slated mansard roof, the upper front slope with asbestos slates; low building to right has slated pitched roof. Rendered chimney on right gable with 5 good, round red pots, the front 2 taller than the rest; low building has red brick chimney to right with 2 round cream pots. PLAN: double-fronted, double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with garret; single-storey range to right. 3-window front, the middle window in a deep gabled projection. This contains the front doorway with moulded architrave and panelled reveals; late C20 wooden glazed door. In front of it is a single-storeyed, glazed wooden porch on a rendered base, probably late C19; glazed, pitched roof with gable at the front. Round-arched second storey window above, set in a shallow round-arched recess; barred sashes, the lower one with 3 panes and margin panes, the upper with 6 panes, margin panes and shaped panes in the window head. Round-arched gable window with 2-paned sashes. Plain bargeboards, probably a C20 replacement. Flanking windows have 6-paned sashes. Many of the windows (certainly all 3 second-storey windows) contain old glass. 2 plain dormer windows, probably C20 additions. Single-storey range to right has no features; added porch with late C20 panelled door has built-in fanlight. INTERIOR not inspected. Allen T Hussell (Ilfracombe Chronicle, 2.7.1937), said it had a 'splendid example of an open continuous handrail staircase, with cut and bracketed shallow strings'. He also mentions good moulded plaster cornices decorated with little balls. (Ilfracombe Chronicle: Hussell AT: 8).
Listing NGR: SS5206947670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390250
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ilfracombe Chronicle in 2 July, (1937), 8
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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