Description

WARMINSTER PORTWAY
1.
5411
(East Side)
Nos 40 and 42
(Formerly listed as
No 81A (The Chesnuts)
and No 81B)
ST 8745 SW 6/94 28.4.52.
II GV
2.
Mid-late C18. Originally a 5 bay house with central door, later a matching
2 window extension added and 2nd door. 2 storeys and attic. Coursed and
squared rubble with ashlar quoins. Projecting plinth in 2 stages, bottom
part ashlar, splayed ashlar capping to 2nd stage forming cills of ground floor
windows. Plain 1st floor string and over 1st floor windows. Small moulded
cornice and ashlar parapet over with coping - both these features removed
from No 42 and replaced by reconstituted Bath-faced blocks. Old tile roof
with 2 dormers. Glazing bar sash windows, 7 on 1st floor, formerly 6 on ground
floor - a 6 panel door now replaces window to left of original door. The
latter is a 6 panel door in an ashlar recess with architrave surround and
key block; radiating and wreathed fanlight; good brass eagle knocker.

Listing NGR: ST8734445272

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26287848

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)