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Summary

Description

Later 19th century with later alterations. 2-storey and attic, 5 and

2 bay house on corner site of Portobello High Street and Pittville Street and terminating 2 terraces (of each street), with shop accommodation at ground, (Nos 328 and 332 Portobello High Street). Polished ashlar. Base course, band course, raised as cornice to canted window and to SW elevation, between ground and 1st floor, deep corbelled cornice above 1st floor, coped blocking course; chamfered arrises and lugged margins at 1st floor, segmental-arch windows at attic.

SW (PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: bay to centre recessed. Windows to each floor in each bay; bipartite in bay to centre, 1st floor. Modern shopfront in bay to centre, Nos 330-332 with deep-set door to outer right of bay; modern shopfront in bays to right (4th and 5th bays) with timber boarding and deep-set door to centre with flanking plate glass windows. Later 19th century shopfront to 1st and 2nd bays with French Gothic capitals to cast-iron columns and deep-set door to centre.

SE (PITTVILLE STREET) ELEVATION: corniced and corbelled doorpiece with 6-panelled door in bay to right, plate glass rectangular fanlight above and carved segmental-arch in lintel above; window at 1st floor. 2-storey canted window in bay to left with segmental-arched recesses to each window at ground.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Gabled dormers, with trefoil finials in bay to centre and in each bay of SE elevation, with bipartite window in bay to left. Grey slate roof with moulded skews and gabletted skewputts. Gablehead, stop-chamfered and coped stacks to paired outer bays of SW elevation; stop-chamfered, coped wallhead stack to NE, moulded octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods, including decorations brackets.

INTERIOR: plasterwork in situ to Nos 330-332 Portobello High Street. Interior of No 328 Portobello High Street and No 1 Pittville Street not seen, 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS: ashlar and coped wall to No 1 Pittville Street.

Statement of Special Interest

The site was not built upon even in 1891 (although the feuing plan can not be held as a totally reliable source). The house had been built by 1896. Its style is eclectic. No 1 Pittville Street is named Parkview.

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