2, Nelson Road is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Villa.
2, Nelson Road
- WRENN ID
- fossil-cinder-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 2, Nelson Road, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SZ 644 990
- Coordinates
- 50.78746, -1.08654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Nelson Road is a villa built around 1860, likely designed by T.E. Owen. The building features a roughcast exterior and a Welsh slate roof, with rendered stacks on either side of the right front-facing gable.
It stands two storeys tall and has six bays arranged in an asymmetrical pattern. On the left side, there is a two-leaf, four-pane casement window on the first floor, each set beneath a flat rendered arch with a rusticated surround. To the right, a one-storey porch has a plain tiled gabled hood and open shaped bargeboards, which are set on the face of a projecting square tower. The entrance features a recessed four-pane glazed door topped by a three-centred arched fanlight, all within an archway with a rendered architrave.
On the first floor of the tower, there is a nine-pane casement window with Y tracery glazing, set under a pointed arch, with a moulded cornice band and a crenellated parapet above. To the right of the tower, there is another two-leaf, four-pane casement window on the first floor, also within a rusticated rendered surround, with a drip label above. The facing gable has shaped open bargeboards.
Further to the right is a three-sided tower with a splayed right side. On the first floor of this splay, there is a six-pane casement window with tracery glazing under a pointed arch. The right side of the tower features two narrow pointed windows, each with eight panes, set under a facing gable with open shaped bargeboards.
Both the left and right returns of the building have similar facing gables. The left return includes a one-storey canted bay with two long margin-glazed casements, a moulded band, and a crenellated parapet. On the first floor, there is a two-pane casement window within a rusticated rendered surround, complete with drip labels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
2, Nelson Road 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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