Portland House/ College Road Medical Centre

Three pairs of semi-detached single-bay two-storey with dormer attic houses, built c.1920, having side entrance porches, full-height canted bays and jettied gabled half-dormer windows to front (north) elevations. One house now in use as doctor's surgery. Pitched slate roof with timber soffitted overhanging eaves, red brick chimneystacks to end pairs, rendered chimneystack to centre pair, timber brackets supporting half-dormers, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. uPVC rainwater goods to some houses. Roughcast rendered walls to upper floors with red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond to ground floors and porches having red brick string course. Square-headed window openings with render sills, four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to half-dormer and four-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground and first floors. Square-headed door openings to porches with half-glazed timber doors. Cast-iron gates and rendered boundary walls to front of sites.

A handsome group of three pairs, with projecting bays and gables which break up and enliven the plans, façades and rooflines, in the style which was fashionable in contemporary early twentieth century architecture. The houses retain notable features such as the timber sliding sash windows, contrasting render and brick, and fine cast-iron railings. In common with most houses along College Road, it is set back from the streetline, to allow for front gardens, which would not have been possible in the city proper.