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The
Portland Hotel
 This is Number 5 Portland Street
built in 1852 by Edward Walters, the architect of
the Free Trade Hall. It had 5 storeys and an attic
and a ground floor arcade. The upper floors are
connected by stone pilasters. For a variety of
reasons including war damage only the facades
survive from the original Walters structure.
In 2017 the hotel is part of the
Ibis hotel chain.
 The Portland sign stands at the top of the building.  The steel support for the
sign is strangely unsymetrical because it used
to say "Thistle The Portland" and the "Thistle"
portion of the sign has been removed.
    Here it is when it actually was a warehouse.  The red arrow on the aerial image below shows the hotel in 1953.  Close Window |