Description

PORTSMOUTH

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

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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

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets