Portway House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
Portway House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-crypt-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1951
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP5019 KIRTLINGTON HEYFORD ROAD (East side)
16/53 Portway House 26/11/51
- II
Substantial house. 1684 on datestone, extended early C20. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings concrete plain-tile, old plain-tile and Stonesfield-slate roofs with rubble and brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attics. 3-window garden front has the entrance to left of centre below a blocked 2-light stone-mullioned window, and in the outer bays has 3-light leaded mullioned windows. A sundial with a rectangular moulded frame is inscribed "TW AW/1684". A moulded string course rises over the entrance and returns to left. Roof has 3 gabled roof dormers, a gable stack to right, and is hipped to left returning over the long rear wing. 3 bays of 6-window elevation facing left are C17 and have similar 3-light mullioned windows, the central windows lighting a stair and cutting across the string; extension of the range in similar style incorporates an earlier single-storey range. Main entrance now in angle of ranges. Interior not inspected. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.220; Buildings of England; Oxfordshire, p.678).
Listing NGR: SP5005419971
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