Description

WARMINSTER PORTWAY
1.
5411
(West Side)
Screen to road in
S5l 8745 W 6/95A 26.5.54. front of Portway House

II*

2.
1760, retaining Smith's marks. Standing on a dwarf stone wall with moulded
coping and small piers at intervals under screen standards, and with tall
square rusticated piers at ends opposite corners of main building, with moulded
caps and crowned with stone eagles, small secondary offsets, to these piers,
terminating in carved scrolls, frame the iron work, which is plain pointed
bars with panel standards of diagonal and square pattern crowned with pyramid
scroll motifs. Elaborate central gateway with wrought iron piers built up
on solid moulded bases with moulded caps ornamented with fret pattern, piers
of bars in form of pilasters, with secondary panel supports to gates. The
gates repeat the design of the standards, with larger panels of diagonal and
square bars, framed with narrow panels of key pattern, and with an elaborate
pyramidal overthrow of scroll work, crowned with a wrought iron eagle.

Listing NGR: ST8737745360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546145

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)