CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1103850
Date first listed: 10-Jan-1953
Date of most recent amendment: 18-Mar-1999
Statutory Address: CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM, 393, OLD COMMERCIAL ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM, 393, OLD COMMERCIAL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
National Grid Reference: SU 64408 01230
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
PORTSMOUTH
SU6401 OLD COMMERCIAL ROAD, Landport
774-1/7/280 (West side)
10/01/53 No.393
Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum
(Formerly Listed as:
COMMERCIAL ROAD, Landport
No.393)
GV I
House, now museum. Late C18. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain
tile hipped roof, brick stack on right.
2 storeys, attic and basement, 2 bays. 5 stone steps with
flanking attached railings approach recessed 6-fielded panel
door, upper panels glazed, panelled reveals, flanking narrow
pilasters and cut pediment. On right and to first floor each
has two 12-pane sashes, ground floor sashes have attached
shutters. Brick dentil band with stone cap, stone coped
parapet. Hipped dormer with 6-pane sash.
Charles Dickens was born in this house on 7th February 1812.
It was then called 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, or 387 Mile
End Road. Listed Grade I as the birthplace of Charles Dickens.
(Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs:
Portsmouth: 1974-: 89; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N &
Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth:
1967-: 459).
Listing NGR: SU6440801230
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 474977
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 89
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 459
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing