CUMBERLAND HOUSE

CUMBERLAND HOUSE, EASTERN PARADE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387096
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: CUMBERLAND HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CUMBERLAND HOUSE, EASTERN PARADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387096
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: CUMBERLAND HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CUMBERLAND HOUSE, EASTERN PARADE

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:: CUMBERLAND HOUSE, EASTERN PARADE

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 65638 98476

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6598 EASTERN PARADE, Southsea 774-1/16/340 (South side) 25/09/72 Cumberland House

II

Villa, now Natural History museum. c1830-40. Probably by TE Owen. Stuccoed. Low pitch Welsh slate roofs, hipped to centre and flanking parts, rendered stack to left of centre and left and right of right part. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 7 bays (3:3:1). Front facing Eastern Parade is divided into 3 parts slightly stepped back from each other. Centre part, 3 bays wide, has central projecting 2-storey flat roofed porch with 3 stone steps approaching a 2-leaf late C20 glass door and fanlight set under round arch, moulded architrave, paired flanking pilasters. To left and right of flanking porch on first floor is a 16-pane sash, each set under flat stuccoed arch, moulded architrave, bracketed sills to ground floor. Sillband at first floor and at centre of porch is a 4-pane sash with margin glazing, cornice and block parapet. Right part, 1 bay wide, higher than centre has rusticated quoin strips, plinth, rendered capital at first floor with short panelled strip over. At centre is a mullioned and transomed tripartite fixed casement, centre light 18-panes with flanking 12-panes, moulded architrave and heavy bracketed sill with incised panels below. First floor has similar tripartite casement but without transom and sill brackets, centre light 12-panes and flanking 8 panes. Left part, 3 bays wide, has on left of centre a 3 panelled door, upper panels glazed with fanlight set within slightly projecting 1-storey porch under round stuccoed arch, moulded architrave and flanking pilasters, stepped block parapet. On left and right of porch is a 16-pane sash, each set under flat stuccoed arch with moulded architrave and bracketed sill, sillband at first floor, 3 similar sashes except each sash flanking porch has 18-panes with 12-pane sash on right. On right is a projecting 1-storey flat roofed extension. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 446-447).

Listing NGR: SZ6425599150

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 474512
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 446,447

Legal

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