Customs Watch House with Attached Walkway and Observation Hut is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Watch house.

Customs Watch House with Attached Walkway and Observation Hut

WRENN ID
patient-mullion-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Portsmouth
Constituency
Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Watch house
OS grid reference
SZ 628 995
Coordinates
50.79194, -1.10943
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Customs Watch House, now a house, features an attached walkway and observation hut. It was built in the late 18th century and has been altered, with a 1952 addition. The walkway and observation hut were added in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick with grey headers in Flemish bond and has a hipped mansard roof covered in plain tiles, with a brick stack on the right. The extension is made of red brick in stretcher bond. The observation hut is weatherboarded and topped with a pyramidal lead roof that has a finial. The structure is two storeys high with an attic, consisting of two bays and a two-bay extension to the left. There are double doors on the right beneath a segmental arch, which has brackets from a former cartouche above. The first-floor sash window is set below flat gauged brick arches. A late 20th-century lantern is fixed to the wall, and there is a brick dentil cornice and a coped parapet. A late 20th-century two-light dormer is present, and the rear has been significantly altered, featuring a canted bay window. A renewed attached walkway at first-floor level connects to the observation hut. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Customs Watch House with Attached Walkway and Observation Hut receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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