46 And 48, Portland Place

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PORTLAND PLACE 1208-1/7/308 (South side) 25/03/70 Nos.46 AND 48

GV II

Pair of houses. Numbered right to left, described left to right. No.46 built 1842, No.48 added 1852-61 with later additions and alterations including mid-C20 roof dormers. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron balconies. 3 storeys with basements and attics, 4 first-floor windows. Horizontal rustication to ground floor. First floor has 8-pane French windows. Second floor has 6/6 sashes in plain reveals. Frieze, cornice, low parapet. Ground floor: 4 steps to side entrances, 4-panel doors, that to left part-glazed, with overlights within tooled architraves. 6/6 and 1/1 sashes. Basement: part-glazed and panel doors, 6/6 sashes. Ridge stack. First floor has ornamental balconies with scroll design to left. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.48 does not appear on the 1852 Board of Health Plan, but is shown as occupied in the 1861 Census report. Portland Place was laid out in 1823-4. The houses provide and axial point of interest to the south end of Portland Street. (Warwick District Council Planning Department; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3154565752