PORTLAND HOUSE, FORECOURT RAILINGS AND GATES

PORTLAND HOUSE, FORECOURT RAILINGS AND GATES, THE CAUSEWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262392
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:: PORTLAND HOUSE, FORECOURT RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: PORTLAND HOUSE, FORECOURT RAILINGS AND GATES, THE CAUSEWAY

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Date:: 2000-07-08
Reference:: IOE01/02494/19
Rights:: © Michael Bass. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262392
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:: PORTLAND HOUSE, FORECOURT RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: PORTLAND HOUSE, FORECOURT RAILINGS AND GATES, THE CAUSEWAY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PORTLAND HOUSE, FORECOURT RAILINGS AND GATES, THE CAUSEWAY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Mark
National Grid Reference:: ST3685447726

Details

ST34NE 9/106 9.2.61

MARK CP THE CAUSEWAY (North side) Portland House, forecourt railings and gates

II

House. Early C19, C20 alterations. Rendered and scribed as ashlar, low pitched hipped slate roof, wide eaves, 2 brick stacks. Symmetrical. Two storeys, 1:1:1 bays, centre breaks forward slightly; 16-pane sash windows except 12-pane sash window to centre of first floor, stepped voussoirs. Broad central semi-circular head opening to ground floor, forming a porch, emphasised keystone, C20 glazed infill, C20 door; inside a coved plaster ceiling, half glazed inner door. Forecourt with cast and wrought iron railings, central gate in conforming style.

Listing NGR: ST3685447726

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Legacy System number:: 435134
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.