40 AND 42, PORTWAY

40 and 42 Portway is a mid to late 18th-century building that was originally a five-bay house with a central door. It has since been extended with a matching two-window addition and a second door. The structure is two storeys tall with an attic, built from coursed and squared rubble with ashlar quoins. It features a projecting plinth in two stages, with the lower part made of ashlar and a splayed ashlar capping on the second stage that forms the cills of the ground floor windows. There is a plain string course at the first floor level and above the first floor windows. The building has a small moulded cornice and an ashlar parapet with coping, although these features have been removed from No 42 and replaced with reconstituted Bath-faced blocks. The roof is covered with old tiles and includes two dormers. The windows are glazing bar sash windows, with seven on the first floor and formerly six on the ground floor; a six-panel door now replaces the window to the left of the original door. The original door is a six-panel design set in an ashlar recess with an architrave surround and key block, featuring a radiating and wreathed fanlight and a decorative brass eagle knocker.