Crescent House
CRESCENT HOUSE, QUEENS CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387151
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Crescent House
- Statutory Address:
- CRESCENT HOUSE, QUEENS CRESCENT
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14331/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387151
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Crescent House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRESCENT HOUSE, QUEENS CRESCENT
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:
- CRESCENT HOUSE, QUEENS CRESCENT
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 64316 99120
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6499 QUEEN'S CRESCENT, Southsea 774-1/13/400 (West side) 25/09/72 Crescent House
GV II
Villa. 1847. By TE Owen. Stuccoed. Low pitch Welsh slate roof, projecting rendered stack to left at centre of facing gable and stack to far right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays (right bay wide). Centre bay projects and has banded rustication to ground floor. Italianate features. At centre is a 9-panelled door with fanlight recessed within porch with open round-arched entrance, scrolled carved brackets to soffit. Heavy moulded band at first floor broken at stack and plain across bay window. At first floor is a round-arched sash margin glazed, shaped brackets as imposts, sillband broken at stack, facing gable with projecting verge and moulded bargeboard, shaped brackets to verge and eaves. To right is a 2-storey rectangular tripartite bay, ground and first floor each have 3 narrow 4-pane sashes, pilasters divide lights to ground floor. At far left on first floor is a round-arched margin glazed sash, facing gable with shaped bargeboard and central stack. On left return the garden front facing Kent Road is stepped back from west to east in 3 bays, first 2 bays have low pitch facing gables. INTERIOR not inspected. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 93; Portsmouth Papers No.32: Riley RC: The House & Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owen's Southsea: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SZ6425599150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475060
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 93
Riley, R C, Portsmouth Papers in The House and Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owens Southsea, Vol. 32, (1980)
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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