Portland House is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1993. House.
Portland House
- WRENN ID
- other-hearth-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent North MP: David Williams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Portland House, Newcastle Street, City of Stoke-On-Trent
- OS grid reference
- SJ 865 496
- Coordinates
- 53.04353, -2.20176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Portland House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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