Queen Elizabeth II Court
Queen Elizabeth II Court, Upper High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323707
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Elizabeth II Court
- Statutory Address:
- Queen Elizabeth II Court, Upper High Street
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323707
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Elizabeth II Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- Queen Elizabeth II Court, Upper 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:
- Queen Elizabeth II Court, Upper High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Winchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 47818 29656
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 June 2023 to correct a typo in the address
SU 4729
869/2/10018
WINCHESTER
UPPER HIGH STREET
Queen Elizabeth II Court
II
Offices for Hampshire County Council. 1959-60. C. Cowles-Voysey, J. Brandon-Jones, J. D. Broadbent and R. Ashton. Brown brick. Red pantiled steeply pitched roof to eaves. Copper roof and spire to fleche. Courtyard plan on irregular corner site.
Main block of four storeys plus attic with projecting wing of two storeys in front. Segmental headed casement windows, mostly of six-lights, single-glazed, in broad timber frames. Attic windows smaller, also segmental headed. Entrance through triple segmental arches into courtyard. Fleche with tiled base, white-painted clock stage and upper polygonal stage with ogee roof between stages and topped by a concave-sided copper spire, finished with a weather cock.
INTERIOR: has idiosyncratic neo-Romanesque details to staircase hall.
A beautifully detailed building in a Scandinavian classical-influenced idiom, which is a landmark in this part of Winchester.
Ashburton Court, a later building joined to Queen Elizabeth Court, is not of special interest.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469232
- 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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