Lower School, Portsmouth Grammar School
LOWER SCHOOL, PORTSMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE ROAD JUNCTION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1386917
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER SCHOOL, PORTSMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE ROAD JUNCTION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1386917
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER SCHOOL, PORTSMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE ROAD JUNCTION
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER SCHOOL, PORTSMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE ROAD JUNCTION
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 63550 99663
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6399 CAMBRIDGE ROAD JUNCTION 774-1/12/5 Lower School, Portsmouth Grammar 25/09/72 School
II
School. 1879. By AE Cogswell. Red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings. Steep pitched plain tiled roof, ornate brick stacks at far left and far right and to left and right of centre. Neo-Jacobean. H-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 bays (bays 2 and 5 narrow). At the centre are 3 round-headed openings forming an arcade articulated with brick pilasters. Centre opening has a 2-leaf door, each leaf with 8-pane half glazing, 16-pane fanlight. Flanking openings are similar but each has a 3-light casement with a 16-pane fanlight. Each is set under a round gauged brick arch with keystone and stone imposts. To left and right is a stone keyed oculus with fixed casement. Stone moulded cornice. Each flanking bay on first floor has a stone mullion and transomed 12-light casement set under a flat stone lintel with rusticated stone jambs and sill, facing stone coped gable with ball finial at apex. Centre bay has at roof level a timber boarded bellcote with ogee shape leaded roof and lead ball finial. To left and to right is a projecting 3-storey bay, each with a 2-leaf half-glazed door set under a flat stone lintel with rusticated stone jambs. On first and second floor is a 2-light wide stone mullioned casement each set under stone arch with rusticated stone jambs and sill. Moulded brick cornice. On each of the far left and right projecting flanking wings is a 4-light wide 8-light and on first floor a 3-light wide 9-light stone mullion, transomed and jambed casement as before; facing stone coped gable with stone ball and finial to antefixia and acroterion. On left is a recessed wing with on ground and first floors a similar 4-light wide 8-light casement, facing stone coped gable with ball finial at apex. Returns and rear elevations have similar details. INTERIOR not inspected. (Lloyd DW: Buildings at Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 106; Thesis. Portsmouth School of Architecture: Nash A: AE Cogswell. Architecture within a Victorian City: Portsmouth: 1975-: 22, 23).
Listing NGR: SZ6353399541
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 474331
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 106
Nash, A, AE Cogswell Architect within a Victorian City, (1975), 22,23
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