Portland Farmhouse And Attached Garden Walls And Pavilions

SK 67 NE ELKESLEY HIGH STREET (south side)

2/42 Portland Farmhouse and attached garden walls and pavilions

G.V. II

Farmhouse and attached walls and pavilions. C18, remodelled early C19 with C20 addition. Rendered brick. Slate roof, hipped to the right. Left gable and single right rendered stacks. Coved wooden cornice. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central C20 render and pantile gabled closed porch with barge board and wooden door in the right wall. To the right is a single glazing bar sash and to the left a single similar sash, above are 3 similar sashes. To the right, set back, is a lower 2 storey, 2 bay wing set on a plinth with single right gable stack and eaves band. Doorway with C20 door and arched overlight, to the right is a single glazing bar sash with a single, similar sash above. To the rear are further 2 storey wings. Extending from the porch for 8 metres is a red brick concrete balustraded wall broken by a doorway with wooden door flanked by single ashlar coped piers. The wall turns at a right angle, becomes plain brick coped, and extends for 55 metres south, 30 metres west and 55 metres north forming a quadrangle with the house. The south side is broken by a doorway with wooden door under segmental arch. The east and west sides each have single red brick and pantile gabled pavilions with dentil eaves and imposts and arched entrance. The east pavilion has the remains of a crocketed ashlar finial. The west side is broken by a doorway with wooden door under a segmental arch flanked by single ashlar coped piers with ashlar finials, there is a further part blocked opening flanked by single similar piers and finials. To the right of the west pavilion is a projecting brick, wood and glass lean-to greenhouse, a one and a half storey brick and pantile outbuilding with dogtooth eaves and single glazing bar fixed light on the first floor, set back is a second outbuilding and further right is the gable of another outbuilding. The remainder of the wall is coped with ashlar and there is a further doorway with wooden door.

Listing NGR: SK6889075500