20, PORTLAND SQUARE (See details for further address information)

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NY4055 PORTLAND SQUARE 671-1/11/237 (South side) 16/12/87 No.20

GV II

Includes: No.5 BRUNSWICK STREET. 2 houses, now an office on a corner site. Late 1870s or 1880s. Portland Square facade of calciferous sandstone, quarry-faced at basement level and bracketed cornice. Graduated slate roof, hipped on corner; white brick ridge chimney stack. Brunswick Street facade is of English garden wall bond brickwork, the cornice of modillioned brick and white brick. Graduated slate roof with ridge and end brick chimney stacks, the end one reduced. 2 storeys, 3 bays on Portland Square with a single-bay return; Brunswick Street facade of lower roof line, 2 storeys, 6 bays. Portland Square house is the end of a terrace; a high central doorway is now fitted with a sash window in stone architrave. Flanking canted bay windows carried up from basement. Paired sash windows over bay windows, single over former door, all in stone surrounds. Return has paired sashes in plain brick reveals. Brunswick Street facade has off-centre panelled door and overlight in pilastered stone porch. Sash windows in brick reveals with slightly-arched brick heads and stone sills. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: NY4055255652