17, PORTLAND STREET
17, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381464
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 17, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, PORTLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381464
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 17, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, 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:
- 17, 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 31569 65937
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165NE PORTLAND STREET
1208-1/7/316 (East side)
25/03/70 No.17
GV II
Former Wesleyan Chapel, then (1870) school, now warehouse.
c1825-1834 with later additions and alterations. Designed by
William Thomas, built by John Toone, for Revd J Entwistle Jr.
Reddish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade, rubbed
red brick dressings to side facade, Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays with narrow, lower, single-bay
ranges to sides.
Main range, giant Tuscan pilasters clasp angles.
First floor: central projection; stepped first-floor band
surmounted by similar pilasters to angles of projections;
central arcade of 3 round-arched long windows each with 8-pane
sashes and Gothic glazing to heads, on continuous moulded sill
with Tuscan pilasters between and with tooled archivolts; to
outer bays are similar single windows in tooled architraves
and with moulded sills on anthemion feet. Entablature above
has frieze with 4 bay-leaf wreaths, blocking course and upshot
sloping to sides. Ground floor: wide central entrance in
cavetto-moulded surround with C20 garage doors; side
entrances: 2 steps to 10-fielded-panel doors in plain reveals,
architraves with acanthus consoles supporting cornice and
surmounted by flat, raised 'pediments'.
To side ranges, alike: tall, narrow 16-pane round-arched
windows with Gothic glazing to heads in plain reveals with
sills, frieze, cornice and blocking course, copings.
Returns, first floor has 8/8 sash then four 12/12 sashes with
cambered arches of red rubbed brick; ground floor has
round-arched windows with glazing-bars, now partly boarded in.
To rear gable an oculus.
To rear extension a similar arcade of three long, narrow
18-pane windows with radial glazing to heads, pediment.
INTERIOR: cast-iron columns remain to ground floor. Dado
remains to first floor; king post roof with hammer posts and
collar beams, 6 sets of roof timbers.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Portland Street was laid out 1823-1824.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39, 57, 164).
Listing NGR: SP3156965937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481826
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 39 57 164
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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