Lawnswood
LAWNSWOOD, 245, FRATTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104277
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Lawnswood
- Statutory Address:
- LAWNSWOOD, 245, FRATTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104277
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Lawnswood
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAWNSWOOD, 245, FRATTON 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:
- LAWNSWOOD, 245, FRATTON 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 65109 00900
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SU6500 FRATTON ROAD, Fratton 774-1/10/175 (West side) 25/09/72 No.245 Lawnswood
II
Vicarage, now undertakers' premises. c1843-50. Probably by TE Owen. Red brick in Flemish bond. Steep pitched Welsh slated roof, paired octagonal brick stacks to centre of 1st bay and to right at rear of 3rd bay, small brick stack to right of 5th bay. Irregular L-plan. Neo-Jacobean style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic to 3rd bay, 1 storey and attic to 4th bay. 5 bays (1st bay blinded). Bay 5 projects and bays 1, 3 and 5 have facing stone coped gables and kneelers. At left of centre, bay 2 has projecting 1-storey porch with facing stone coped gable and kneelers, 2-leaf Gothic panelled door, cusped heads to each panel and centre rail with incised quatrefoil, fanlight with cusped leaded lights set under 4-centred brick arch, dripstone with moulded stops. First floor has 4-pane sash set under splayed brick label. On left blinded bay has projecting stack. On right is a tripartite mullion and transomed casement, 8-pane lower lights and 4-pane upper set under flat splayed brick arch, stone label with carved stops. First floor has 4-pane sash under stone label and to attic is a 6-pane casement. On right within bay 4 is a 16-pane casement set under flat splayed stone lintel and to right a single storey lean-to porch with boarded door set under 4-centred brick arch with stone label. First floor has 4-pane sash set under stone lintel, facing stone coped dormer gable and kneelers. On far right is a tripartite sash set under splayed brick arch with stone label. On first floor a 4-pane sash. Return to right facing garden has 5 bays, centre bay projects with facing stone coped gable and kneelers. Ground floor has 2-leaf transomed casement under stone labels, and at centre a rectangular bay with 2-leaf French casement and flanking casements. First floor has five 4-pane sashes, outer sashes set under projecting brick labels with flat lead roofs. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SU6510400914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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