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Quebec House

A Grade II Listed Building in Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7917 / 50°47'29"N

Longitude: -1.1095 / 1°6'34"W

OS Eastings: 462859

OS Northings: 99499

OS Grid: SZ628994

Mapcode National: GBR VN3.1R

Mapcode Global: FRA 87K0.3JR

Plus Code: 9C2WQVRR+M5

Entry Name: Quebec House

Listing Date: 30 October 1969

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1386828

English Heritage Legacy ID: 474238

ID on this website: 101386828

Location: Old Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1

County: City of Portsmouth

Electoral Ward/Division: St Thomas

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Portsmouth

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire

Church of England Parish: St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth

Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth

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Description


PORTSMOUTH

SZ6399 BATH SQUARE, The Point 774-1/11/439 (West side) 30/10/69 Quebec House

GV II

Bathing house, later hotel, now house. 1754, early and mid C19 alterations. Timber frame clad with weatherboarding with some brick. Low-pitched Welsh slate hipped roof with rendered stack to left and right ridges. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Late C19 main door to left of centre with marginal glazing bars; door case with pilasters and corniced entablature. C20 door to right. 12-pane sashes except for 8-pane window on right of ground floor, those on ground floor with shutters. Moulded cornice to ground floor. Late C20 glass roof light at centre. Left return: 3 bays with two 2-light casement windows on ground floor, left window with leaded glazing. First floor: to left, canted bay window with panelled apron below, cornice over and small-pane glazed casements. On right, 2 small-pane casements. INTERIOR not inspected. Built 1754 by public subscription as a bathing house containing baths replenished by harbour water. One of the earliest buildings still existing connected with seabathing. (Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 24; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 51; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 456).



Listing NGR: SZ6285599502

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