13, Portland Place

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PORTLAND PLACE 1208-1/7/301 (North side) 25/03/70 No.13

GV II

House now flats. c1824-36 with later alterations. Brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys with basement, 3 first-floor windows. First floor: 6/6 sashes; second floor: 6/6 sashes; ground floor: steps to central entrance a 6-panel door with overlight, doorcase has fluted pilasters and frieze, 6/6 sashes. All windows in plain reveals and with sills. Basement has casement windows. Roof hipped to right. Tall left end and rear stacks with cornices. To right facade: 2 first-floor windows. Mainly 6/6 sashes, third floor has one 3/6 sash. All in plain reveals and with sills. To rear a 15-pane staircase window with radial glazing to head, 6/6 and 3/6 sashes. INTERIOR: shutters to some windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: Portland Place and Portland Street were laid out 1823-4. Occupies a significant corner site at the junction of Portland Place and Portland Street and forms a group with Nos 22-38 (even) Portland Street (qqv). (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39; Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our local past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Leamington Spa: 1895-: 140).

Listing NGR: SP3153065788