Western Court is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1999. Villa.

Western Court

WRENN ID
eastward-cloister-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Portsmouth
Constituency
Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1999
Type
Villa
Address
Western Court, Queens Crescent, City of Portsmouth
OS grid reference
SZ 643 991
Coordinates
50.78811, -1.08916
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Western Court is a villa, now divided into a house and three flats, built in 1847 by T.E. Owen. The building is stuccoed with a Welsh slate roof and has rendered stacks on either side of the three-storey section. The exterior features three storeys, with the front part being two storeys and comprising four bays.

At the center of the three-storey section, there is a one-storey projecting entrance porch that has a round-arched opening, a moulded band, and a crenellated parapet. Access to the porch is via three steps leading to a recessed two-leaf six-panelled door with an overlight. The right side of the porch has one narrow round-arched fixed casement, while the left side has three narrow round-arched fixed casements, each with leaded lights and a diamond pattern in the top half.

To the right of the porch, within the projecting two-storey wing, is a sash window with its original attached shutters intact, set beneath a flat arch. On the left side of the porch, there is a four-panelled door with an overlight, and adjacent to it is a twelve-pane sash window. The first and second floors feature a string course and moulded sill bands. On the first floor, there are twelve-pane sashes on the left and far right, both under flat arches, and a narrow sash to the right of the porch. The second floor has three six-pane sashes, with the right sash set within a facing gable. All the sash windows have restored attached shutters. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Western Court 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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