Screen to Road in Front of Portway House
SCREEN TO ROAD IN FRONT OF PORTWAY HOUSE, PORTWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285678
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Screen to Road in Front of Portway House
- Statutory Address:
- SCREEN TO ROAD IN FRONT OF PORTWAY HOUSE, PORTWAY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285678
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Screen to Road in Front of Portway House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCREEN TO ROAD IN FRONT OF PORTWAY HOUSE, PORTWAY
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:
- SCREEN TO ROAD IN FRONT OF PORTWAY HOUSE, PORTWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87377 45360
Details
WARMINSTER PORTWAY 1. 5411 (West Side) Screen to road in S5l 8745 W 6/95A 26.5.54. front of Portway House
II*
2. 1760, retaining Smith's marks. Standing on a dwarf stone wall with moulded coping and small piers at intervals under screen standards, and with tall square rusticated piers at ends opposite corners of main building, with moulded caps and crowned with stone eagles, small secondary offsets, to these piers, terminating in carved scrolls, frame the iron work, which is plain pointed bars with panel standards of diagonal and square pattern crowned with pyramid scroll motifs. Elaborate central gateway with wrought iron piers built up on solid moulded bases with moulded caps ornamented with fret pattern, piers of bars in form of pilasters, with secondary panel supports to gates. The gates repeat the design of the standards, with larger panels of diagonal and square bars, framed with narrow panels of key pattern, and with an elaborate pyramidal overthrow of scroll work, crowned with a wrought iron eagle.
Listing NGR: ST8737745360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312973
- 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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