Buckingham House
BUCKINGHAM HOUSE, 10 1/2 AND 11, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1104356
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Buckingham House
- Statutory Address:
- BUCKINGHAM HOUSE, 10 1/2 AND 11, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1104356
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Buckingham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUCKINGHAM HOUSE, 10 1/2 AND 11, HIGH STREET
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:
- BUCKINGHAM HOUSE, 10 1/2 AND 11, HIGH STREET
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 63478 99493
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6399 HIGH STREET 774-1/12/31 (South East side) 10/01/53 Nos.10 1/2 AND 11 Buckingham House
GV II*
Formerly known as: The Spotted Dog HIGH STREET. House, later public house, now offices and flats. C16 or early C17 timber-framed house, altered and refronted late C17 or early C18 and later rendered. Plain tile roofs, No.10 1/2 with brick stack to right. No.10 1/2 of 2 storeys and attic, 2 1/2 bays. No.11 of 2 and 3 storeys, 2 bays. No.10 1/2 has projecting 1/2 bay on left with recessed door of 6 panels (2 flush, 2 fielded and 2 glazed), set in moulded architrave; first floor blind. On right, 16-pane sash below rusticated round arch from which rises pilaster separating 2 round-arched first floor sashes with glazing bars and similarly treated arches; coped parapet; 2 flat-roofed dormers. No.11 has 2-storey bay on left with door as No.10 1/2 but with heavy carved brackets supporting cornice; blind 1st floor. 2 sashes to each floor of right-hand bays, in flush wood architraves, on ground and 1st floors of 12 panes with bracketed cornices over, on 2nd floor of 9 unequally-hung panes. 1st floor sillband. Eaves cornice to right bays below parapet. INTERIOR: the interior has panelling and partly exposed timber framing. A plaque on the wall records that "In this house George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham was assassinated by John Felton, 23 August 1628". (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 37 AND 38).
Listing NGR: SZ6339899424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474761
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 37,38
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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