Rockingham (Number 14) and Nelson House (Number 15) is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. House. 2 related planning applications.

Rockingham (Number 14) and Nelson House (Number 15)

WRENN ID
roaming-rampart-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Portsmouth
Constituency
Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1953
Type
House
Address
Rockingham (Number 14) and Nelson House (Number 15), 15 and 16a, High Street, City of Portsmouth, PO1 2LP
OS grid reference
SZ 634 994
Coordinates
50.79133, -1.10105
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 18th-century building originally comprising three houses, now numbered 14, 15, and 16A, located on the High Street in Portsmouth. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, topped with three hipped roofs and a brick stack on the right-hand side. It is three storeys high and five bays wide.

Number 14 features a six-panelled front door on the left-hand side, with the lower panels being flush, the central two fielded and the top two glazed, set within a late 19th-century surround of heavy, fluted pilasters and a pediment. Number 15 has a central six-panelled door with glazed upper panels, accompanied by pilasters, a frieze and a projecting cornice. Number 16A boasts a four-panelled door with glazed upper panels, situated within an early 19th-century surround featuring fluted console brackets and a moulded cornice. Each door is preceded by a single stone step, and a rendered plinth runs between them. The ground floor has two twelve-paned sash windows on either side of the central door, each set beneath a gauged brick flat arch. Similar sash windows are found on the first and second floors, although the central first-floor window is now blocked. A brick dentil band runs along the top of the second floor, surmounted by a stone coped parapet. The interior of the building has not been inspected.

Local climate

Rockingham (Number 14) and Nelson House (Number 15) 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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