Queensbury (Number 41)

Terrace of eight houses built between 1837 and 1840 on Kent Road in Southsea, designed by T.E. Owen. Number 41 was refronted and altered in the late 19th century. The buildings are rendered with stucco and topped with Welsh slate roofs, except Numbers 39 and 41 which have interlocking tiles. Numbers 29 and 39 have hipped roofs, Number 43 has a pair of hipped roofs, and rendered stacks are positioned to the left and right of Number 29, left of Number 33, and on the right of Numbers 35 to 43.

The terrace is three storeys with basement across most properties, except Number 31 which is two storeys with basement. The frontage comprises 17 bays of varying widths arranged 1 wide, then 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, and 2 wide bays respectively.

Numbers 29 and 43 feature flanking paired Corinthian pilasters with entablature over the first floor, followed by squat Tuscan pilasters extending to the eaves. Numbers 31 to 41 have rusticated ground floors.

Number 29 is centred on a circa 1880 restored conservatory. Its first floor carries a flat-fronted round-cornered oriel window with eight-pane centre sash and curved eight-pane flanking sashes, divided by pilasters and supported on shaped brackets, with a fascia and flat lead roof. The second floor has a sash with four-pane upper leaf and two-pane lower leaf. A return on the left displays similar quoin pilasters and entablature. The left-facing front on Sussex Road contains a four-panelled door within a porch, flanked by a twelve-pane sash on the ground floor, a twelve-pane unequal sash on the first floor, and a six-pane sash on the second floor.

Number 31 is centred on a four-panelled door with fanlight. To left and right are round-headed eight-pane sashes with margin glazing and narrow central glazing, all set within a recessed arcade with a moulded band at impost level. A sill band at first floor carries three twelve-pane sashes each set under a flat arch, with a band cornice and block parapet above.

Number 33 has a 20th-century door with fanlight on the right and a margin-glazed round-headed sash on the left. A first-floor sill band extends across Numbers 33 to 39, containing a twelve-pane sash and two narrow mullioned four-pane sashes on the right, each set under flat stuccoed arches. A moulded band at second floor runs across Numbers 33 to 39, containing a six-pane sash and two narrow mullioned sashes on the right.

Number 35 has a 20th-century door with fanlight on the left and a sixteen-pane round-headed sash on the right. The first floor has a nine-pane sash and the second floor a six-pane sash, each set under a flat stuccoed arch.

Number 37 has a two-leaf four-panelled door with fanlight on the right and a sixteen-pane round-headed sash on the left. The first floor contains a twelve-pane sash and a narrow four-pane sash on the right, each set under flat stuccoed arches.

Number 39 has a two-leaf six-panelled door with fanlight on the left and a sixteen-pane round-headed sash on the right. Below and flanking the door and window are three small four-pane sashes each set under flat arches. The first floor has a twelve-pane sash and the second floor a six-pane sash.

Number 41 is centred on a two-leaf eight raised and moulded panelled door with fanlight set within a projecting single-storey open porch with flanking Tuscan pilasters, dentil band cornice, and balustrade. To left and right is a round-headed sash. The first floor carries three sashes each set under a flat arch, flanked by Corinthian pilasters and topped with a triangular pediment. At second floor level is a bracketed sill band course with three sashes each set under a cambered arch with eaved architrave, topped by a bracketed cornice and balustrade.

Far right, Number 43 has a slightly projecting left section, but its ground floor features a tripartite window with centre eight-pane casement and four-pane flanking casements. To the left of the right recessed section is a single-storey projecting porch approached by four stone steps to a two-leaf six-panelled door with fanlight set under a round stuccoed arch, with moulded architrave, flanking pilasters, and block parapet. On the right is a two-storey bow window with two sashes at ground floor and three four-pane sashes on the first floor, each set under flat stuccoed arches, with dentil band cornice and flat roof.

The interior was not inspected. Numbers 29 to 43 (odd) form a group with Numbers 2 to 10 (even) Sussex Road.