Strathearn Hotel
STRATHEARN HOTEL, SOUTH PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387215
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Strathearn Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- STRATHEARN HOTEL, SOUTH PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387215
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Strathearn Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRATHEARN HOTEL, 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:
- STRATHEARN HOTEL, 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 64976 98156
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6498 SOUTH PARADE, Southsea 774-1/15/409 Strathearn Hotel 25/09/72
II
On left: house, now flats. 1860-2. By TE Owen. Stucco and stone. Welsh slate roof, brick stack to right on rear pitch. 2 storeys, basement and attic, 2 bays. On right: pair of houses, then hotel, now flats. c1880-90. Red brick in stretcher bond, rendered dressings. Welsh slate mansard roof, brick stack on left, right and centre. 3 storeys, basement and attic. EXTERIOR: 4 first floor windows. Long and short rendered quoin strips at corners. Left hand block has 2 gabled bays. Projecting left bay has 3-light mullioned and transomed casement window; right bay a shallow canted bay with similar 5-light windows, untransomed on 1st floor, with cornice and crenellated parapet, 2-light casement to attic set within gable. Left bay has 2-light mullioned casements on first floor and 3 small casements to attic with centre casement taller. Rear part in random rubble with irregular long and short stone quoins, central 3-storey tower with cornice band and crenellated parapet, small tower on right with corbelled stone brackets. On left rectangular bay with slate hipped roof. Narrow windows on all floors. Right-hand part has central 2-leaf, 6-panelled door at centre, lower panels moulded and upper glazed; overlight. Fixed window light on right side of door, pilasters flanking door and window with heavy shaped brackets at top supporting cornice. The whole set within ornate timber and glass porch. To left and to right, full-height tripartite canted bay windows with 3 sashes, rendered pilasters dividing lights. Ground floor sashes have moulded rendered sills with brackets; moulded cornice over first floor window heads with pediments over windows and paired sashes to central bay; elaborate ironwork balustrade to continuous, bracketed balcony on first and second floors with rendered dressings. Frieze and cornice over second floor and parapet blocking course. 4 dormers. INTERIOR not inspected. (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:
- 475142
- 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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