Priory School
PRIORY SCHOOL, FAWCETT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104272
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Priory School
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY SCHOOL, FAWCETT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104272
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Priory School
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY SCHOOL, FAWCETT ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY SCHOOL, FAWCETT 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:
- SZ 65168 99900
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6599 FAWCETT ROAD, Southsea 774-1/14/346 (West side) 25/09/72 Priory School (Formerly Listed as: FAWCETT ROAD Southern Grammar School for Girls)
II
School. c1910. By GE Smith. Red brick in English bond, lavish stone dressings. Roof concealed, brick stack with stone top and cap at right of third bay. Symmetrical. English Wren-Baroque Revival. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 15 bays. 3 bays at each end and at centre project slightly with spaced flush stone quoins to first and second floors. At centre is a 2-leaf half glazed door, each leaf 6-panes with lower raised and fielded panel, radial glazed fanlight set under round stone arch with keystone and mould impost set behind stone portico with flanking Doric columns which front Doric pilasters with stone blocks linking lower half, broken entablature and deep open pediment with panelled soffit, leaf motif carvings set within tympanum. On left and right is a 12-pane sash with wood transom and 6-pane fixed light over, each set within stone architrave, flat arch and keystone. Further to left and to right are 6 metal casements, each 30-panes with 2 transoms set under flat stone arch with triple keystones rising into stone band, stone plinth. First floor and second floor have 15 windows, each with 20-pane unequal sashes, wood transom and 8-pane fixed casement over set within stone eaved architrave with keystone. On first floor windows the moulded stone architrave is slightly swept up to keystone. Sash over portico shorter by 4 panes. Windows to bays 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 have 2 projecting stone blocks at each jamb. Second floor sashes have long narrow keystones running into stone frieze, modillion cornice. 3-bay centre has segmental brick pediment with stone cornice. Each of the end 3 bays has brick parapet with stone coping. (Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 71; Lloyd DW: Buildings at Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 449; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 106, 108).
Listing NGR: SZ6516799908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474588
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 449
Balfour, A, Portsmouth, (1970), 71
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 106,108
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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