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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 481826
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.