Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Portland
House, Newcastle Street, Burslem
Area
Burslem |
Street
Newcastle Road |
Heritage No.
17a |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
15 March 1993 |
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Building:
Portland House |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ8649NE
Newcastle Road, Burslem |
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Description:
CIRCA 1832, 3 STOREYS BRICK WITH STUCCO
DRESSINGS |
Portland House,
Newcastle Road
photo: © Mr Brian Peach - Oct 2000
A former private house, later used as a Teachers'
Centre. Now occupied by School of Art, but originally built as
the home of a local pot master. 1832, with additions of c.1880.
Brick with stuccoed dressings and plain tiled roof.
3-storeyed, 3 bays, square in plan. Central bay
advanced, with doorway in projecting porch with heavy
entablature and fretted parapet. Round arched window over, in
stressed architrave.
Palladian flanking windows on ground and first
floors, the ground floor windows contained in arched recesses.
Diocletian windows in attic. Large projecting canted stuccoed
bay window parapet. Other windows are tripartite sashes. Moulded
eaves cornice, gable end stacks.
(The Buildings of England: N. Pevsner:
Staffordshire: Harmondsworth).
  
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