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CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM

CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM, 393, OLD COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1103850
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1953
Statutory Address:: CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM, 393, OLD COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Official list entry

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 1:: CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM, 393, OLD COMMERCIAL ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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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)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 64408 01230

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)

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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

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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

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.