Queen Elizabeth II Court

Queen Elizabeth II Court, Upper High Street

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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:: Queen Elizabeth II Court, Upper High Street

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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.

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Legacy System number:: 469232
Legacy System:: LBS

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