Number 132 1/2 and Attached Railings
NUMBER 132 1/2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 132 1/2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333196
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Number 132 1/2 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 132 1/2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 132 1/2, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333196
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Number 132 1/2 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 132 1/2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 132 1/2, HIGH STREET
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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:
- NUMBER 132 1/2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 132 1/2, 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 63482 99536
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6399 HIGH STREET 774-1/12/45 (North West side) 25/09/72 No.132 1/2 and attached railings
GV II
House now offices and attached railings. Mid C19. Stuccoed. Roof concealed, rendered stack at right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 5 bays. Centre 3 bays rusticated on ground floor. Projecting end bays are flanked with pilaster strips with bold Greek key pattern to first and second floors, 4-panelled door, upper panels glazed, and with segmental fanlight on left and on right within the outer bays and each set back within porches. Each entrance flanked by panelled pilaster strips and with shaped brackets to cornice. 3 sashes between doors each 12-panes set within plain surround, panel above with wreath moulding, central patera, panel below sill. Over each head long shaped paired brackets with guilloche mouldings supporting first floor balcony which is divided into 3 bays with coupled stuccoed piers and crossed iron rails. Balconies to outer bays have iron balustrades flanked by coupled stuccoed piers with elaborate scrolled Baroque pedestal features crowned by spike ball at base, of pilaster strips. Leading off first floor balconies 5 French casements each set in plain surround with shaped carved brackets supporting cornice. Second floor: 5 sashes, each 4 panes set in plain surround and with wreath moulding to sills with paired console brackets. Block cornices. Over second floor heavy moulded projecting cornice with paired shaped brackets. Parapet over with flanking piers at corners of outer bays. INTERIOR: in corridor, Neo-Classical mythological relief plaques. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached heavy cast-iron railings and gates at pavement. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 44; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 452).
Listing NGR: SZ6339899424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474781
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 44
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 452
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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