Portway House
PORTWAY HOUSE, 7, PORTWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383056
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Portway House
- Statutory Address:
- PORTWAY HOUSE, 7, PORTWAY
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- Date:
- 2005-08-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/13825/32
- Rights:
- © Mr John H. Sparkes. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383056
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Portway House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTWAY HOUSE, 7, PORTWAY
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:
- PORTWAY HOUSE, 7, PORTWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54498 45657
Details
WELLS
ST5445 PORTWAY
662-1/5/192 (West side)
12/11/53 No.7
Portway House
GV II
House in row, set back from adjacent properties and slightly
set down from street level. Early C19 with late C19 extension
and alteration to front. Rendered and colourwashed, double
Roman clay tiled roof with abutment to south, plain gable to
north, with ornamental clay tile ridge, brick chimney stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 1+3 bays, of which bay 1
projects slightly. Plain sash windows in plain surrounds,
paired at both levels bays 2 and 4. Entrance in bay 3, with
6-panel door having plain architrave and pediment hood on
console brackets. Flat-roofed dormers with 4-pane casements
over bays 2, 3 and 4. A ridge stack between bays 1 and 2
suggests that this bay was a later addition to the original
symmetrical front; there is a further stack to the right
gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The house probably built in isolation just outside the limits
of the town, later enclosed by Victorian development.
Listing NGR: ST5449845657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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