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• n  gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage

• A kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental and yet entirely permeable, lucid but not glib.
• After three months' apprenticeship, novice munitions workers become full-fledged members of the Guy Fawkes Club, eligible to wear the club badge: a gilt portcullis on a field of .
• The door of its national showrooms at Atlantic City is a huge seven-foot valve which is opened closed like a portcullis.

News & Articles

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• Portcullis Achieves CREST CSIR Accreditation
  Portcullis Computer Security, information security specialist, has announced its acceptance into the CREST Cyber Security Incident Response (CSIR) Scheme. The scheme was established by CREST in collaboration with CESG, the information security division of GCHQ, and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), to create a set of standards for incident response when dealing ...
  March 18, 2014 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• David Blunkett in Times Online
  When you've been in politics as long as I have you can smell and feel when it is right to step away,Mr Blunkett said. "And I felt that between Downing Street and Portcullis House."
• Jon Trickett in guardian.co.uk
  Many years after leaving the area, I met Mr Khan in July 2004 when he accompanied a school trip to London, during which time they briefly visited Portcullis House for a sandwich and met with their local MP,Mr Trickett said. "It is...
• Adam Afriyie in newswireless.net
  I used to spend afternoons sitting on the steps outside Portcullis House so that I could get a signal from what I think is Café Nero next door,said MP Adam Afriyie this week.