Portobello House
PORTOBELLO HOUSE, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1338365
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- Statutory Address:
- PORTOBELLO HOUSE, CHAPEL STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11465/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1338365
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTOBELLO HOUSE, CHAPEL STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PORTOBELLO HOUSE, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Bumpstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 68060 41094
Details
TL 64 SE STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD CHAPEL STREET 2/65 21/6/62 Portobello House
GV II
House, late C17, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. N-S, aspect W, with axial chimney stack in second bay from S end. C18 stair tower to E of chimney stack. C19 extension with catslide roof along E side, enclosing stair tower. 2 storeys and cellar. 4-panel door with upper panels glazed, triglyph frieze, C18, with one splayed bay of double-hung sash windows of 2-2-2 lights, and 3 double-hung sash windows of 2,4 and 4 lights respectively, all late C19. First floor, 4 more, of 4,2,2 and 4 lights respectively. The interior has a plain-chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops above the ground floor, a large wood- burning hearth facing N, and to the S of it an C18 semi-circular recessed cupboard. The walls have been raised approx. 1.70 metres in the C18 and the roof rebuilt. Above the first floor there are plain-chamfered axial beams with simple concave stops.
Listing NGR: TL6806041094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114199
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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