The Old Vic Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1999. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Vic Public House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-spire-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1999
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Vic Public House, 104, St Pauls Road, City of Portsmouth, PO5 4AQ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 639 998
- Coordinates
- 50.79494, -1.09449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Vic public house, located on St Paul’s Road in Landport, Portsmouth, was built in 1899 and designed by AE Cogswell. It was formerly known as The Borough Arms. The building is constructed of glazed brown brick, red brick in stretcher bond, and timber framing with stuccoed panels, with a plain tile roof featuring an ornamental ridge piece.
The exterior is three storeys high and comprises four bays. The ground floor is in brown glazed brick and features recessed five-panelled doors on the far left, centre-right, and far right. The centre and right doors have glazed upper panels and mullioned overlights with segmental heads, the lower half of the overlight to the centre door being blinded. The fixed casements flanking the doors have mullions, transoms, segmental heads, and moulded brown glazed faience sills and a recessed mosaic patterned apron.
The central two bays of the first floor have a jettied timber-framed construction with stuccoed panels supported by thirteen heavy shaped brackets. The upper floors feature mullion and transomed casement windows with leaded glass and three-pane casements over the transoms, along with oriel windows supported by brackets. The third floor also has a jettied timber-framed design with stuccoed panels, shaped brackets, a moulded bressumer, ornate strapwork, and facing half-hipped gables with shaped bargeboards and spike finials.
The interior retains the original etched glass door entrance screens and bar fitting.
Local climate
The Old Vic Public House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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