Portland House

Portland House is a house that now serves as the School of Art but was originally built as the home of a local pot master in 1832, with additions made around 1880. The building is constructed of brick with stuccoed dressings and has a plain tiled roof. It is three stories high and has three bays, with a square plan. The central bay is advanced and features a doorway in a projecting porch that has a heavy entablature and a fretted parapet. Above the doorway, there is a round-arched window set within a stressed architrave. The ground and first floors have Palladian-style flanking windows, with the ground floor windows located in arched recesses. The attic features Diocletian windows. A large projecting canted stuccoed bay window is present on the side elevation, which has round-arched lights and a fretted parapet. Other windows in the building are tripartite sashes. The structure also has a moulded eaves cornice and gable end stacks.