Trafalgar House
TRAFALGAR HOUSE, EDINBURGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360779
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Trafalgar House
- Statutory Address:
- TRAFALGAR HOUSE, EDINBURGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360779
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Trafalgar House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRAFALGAR HOUSE, EDINBURGH 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:
- TRAFALGAR HOUSE, EDINBURGH 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 64124 00493
Details
774-1/0/10019 EDINBURGH ROAD
10-JUN-02 Trafalgar House
II
Former YMCA premises, containing mural painting. Circa late C19; mural painting of 1948 by Eric Rimmington; front of building altered 1960s. Tall 3-storey and attic 3-bay building in terracotta and brick; the Victorian Gothic ground, first and second storeys stripped of architectural detail and rendered; above there is a terracotta Lombardy frieze, the balustrade removed, and a 4-light window with an oculus in the gable above; stacks to left and right with truncated shafts.
INTERIOR: Late C19 staircases, one with elaborate cast-iron balustrade.
The principal interest of the building is a painted mural on the ground floor at the rear of the original building, in the lounge of the former Trafalgar House Services Club, painted in 1948 by Eric Rimmington. The mural occupies almost the whole of one wall of the room. It comprises an imaginary local scene, with sailors in contemporary uniform in the foreground, some with kit-bags. Most of the other figures are young women, some with small children. The background of the painting is divided into three parts; on the right old Portsmouth town and harbour; at the centre a park-like landscape with the Solent and Isle of Wight in the distance; and on the left what appears to be Portsmouth Southsea Station. There is a covered flight of stairs down to the central landscape. The ships on the Solent and in Portsmouth harbour are sailing ships from the past. The figures at the centre appear to be wistfully looking out into the landscape and it is thought to represent a period when Britain was beginning its long recovery from the Second World War. The work is of considerable interest as an example of public mural painting of the immediate post-Second World War period, with its allusions to the War and local references to the naval base of Portsmouth, by an interesting young artist.
SOURCES: Information provided by the artist Eric Rimmington.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489542
- 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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