Portal, Tarporley

Portal is a country house standing to the northeast of the village of Tarporley, Cheshire, England. It was built in 1900–05.^[1] The architect was Walter E. Tower, nephew and partner of the stained glass designer and manufacturer C. E. Kempe.^[2] It is a timber-framed building in Domestic Revival (Black-and-white Revival) style. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.^[3] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner says of it: "It is a tour de force in accurate but scaled-up imitation of timber-framed mansions".^[1]

See also

• Cheshire portal

• Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire West and Chester
• Listed buildings in Tarporley

References

1. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (2003) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 352, ISBN 0-300-09588-0
2. de Figueiredo, Peter; Treuherz, Julian (1988), Cheshire Country Houses, Chichester: Phillimore, pp. 143–145, ISBN 0-85033-655-4
3. Historic England, "Portal, Tarporley (1330174)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 11 September 2013

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