Number 8 and Attached Railings
NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 8, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381462
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Number 8 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 8, PORTLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381462
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Number 8 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 8, 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:
- NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 8, PORTLAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31529 65955
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165NE PORTLAND STREET
1208-1/7/314 (West side)
25/03/70 No.8
and attached railings
GV II
Villa, now hotel and attached railings. c1824-1836 with later
additions and alterations including mid-C20 extension to rear
and right. Pinkish-brown brick with scored and painted stucco
facades, pebble-dashed to left return, Welsh slate roof and
cast-iron railings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic to gable, 3
first-floor windows, with single-storey recessed range to
right. First floor: continuous band surmounted by Doric
pilasters to ends and between windows. 10-pane French windows
with margin-lights. Frieze, cornice, low parapet. Ground
floor, central entrance: 4 steps to 3-fielded-panel door with
fanlight with radial glazing within distyle Doric porch with
engaged pilasters and entablature with blocking course. Bow
windows to either side rise from basement and each has two 6/6
sashes per bow, blocking course. Right extension has 6/6 sash
with elliptical arch. End stacks. Continuous balcony to first
floor has circle-motif balustrade.
INTERIOR: central dogleg staircase has stick balusters,
modillion cornice to hall, slate fireplace to right room.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings and to sides of porch have
triple-motif finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Portland Place was laid out 1823-4.
Nos 2-12 (even) Portland Place (qqv) form an architectural
group.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).
Listing NGR: SP3152965955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 39
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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