CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM

List Entry Summary

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

Location

CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM, 393, OLD COMMERCIAL ROAD

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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

Selected 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

National Grid Reference: SU 64408 01230

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