SCREEN TO ROAD IN FRONT OF PORTWAY HOUSE

SCREEN TO ROAD IN FRONT OF PORTWAY HOUSE, PORTWAY

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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:: SCREEN TO ROAD IN FRONT OF PORTWAY HOUSE, PORTWAY

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Official list entry

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

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 312973
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.