38-42, SOUTH PARADE
38-42, SOUTH PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387212
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 38-42, SOUTH PARADE
- Statutory Address:
- 38-42, SOUTH PARADE
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387212
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 38-42, SOUTH PARADE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38-42, SOUTH PARADE
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:
- 38-42, SOUTH 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 65092 98151
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6598 SOUTH PARADE, Southsea 774-1/16/406 Nos.38-42 (Consecutive) 25/09/72
II
Terrace of 5 houses, now 1 premise with restaurant, bar and flats. 1860-2, much altered mid-C20. By TE Owen. Stuccoed. Welsh slate hipped roof, rendered stack one to right of Nos 38-41, brick stack to left and right of No.42. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attic, 9 bays (1:2:2:2:1:1). Symmetrical. Ground floors rusticated, flanking bays project with facing gables. To left of Nos 38 and 41 and right of Nos 39 and 40, 4 stone steps approach a C20 2-leaf glazed door with fanlight, each recessed within a 1-storey projecting porch. Each porch has a round-arched opening and entablature with triglyph frieze except No.40 has no cornice and No.41 has plain front with flat stuccoed arch. To right of Nos 38 and 41, left of No.39 and centre of No.42 is a C20 6-pane shop front casement, on right of No.39 a 12-pane casement and a C20 shopfront infill set between porches of Nos 40 and 41, each set under flat arch. On first floor set between flanking bays is an iron balcony with metal tent roof on iron brackets. Nos 38 and 42 have separate balconies. On first floor No.38 has a 12-pane sash and on far right No.42 a 10-pane sash. Within the recessed front are on left two 12-pane sashes and to right 4 mid C20 2-leaf French casements and one 10-pane sash, each set under flat stuccoed arch. Nos 39-41 has dentilled eaves cornice with brackets. Sillband at second floor with 8 sashes, four 6-pane and two 4-pane, each set under flat stuccoed arch with flanking pilasters, No.42 has a tripartite window with centre 6-pane sash and narrow flanking sashes. No.38 has guilloche band and a 4-light attic casement, No.42 a round-headed attic casement with moulded architrave each set within facing gable. Return on right, No.42, has a similar projecting porch, door and fanlight to Nos 38 and 39, 3 sashes on each of the first and second floors. (Portsmouth Papers No.32: Riley RC: The House & Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owen's Southsea: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SZ6508998147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475139
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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