53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. House.
53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- final-storey-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, High Street, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SZ 632 992
- Coordinates
- 50.78977, -1.10453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 High Street is a house dating from the late 18th century. It has a stuccoed exterior and a plain tile roof, with a brick stack on the left side. The building stands four storeys high and features one wide bay. To the right, there is a door with six moulded panels, the upper panels being glazed, and an overlight above. The door is flanked by rusticated pilasters and a shallow dentilled cornice. An attached lantern is positioned over the door.
On the left side, there is a 12-pane sash window with a moulded architrave and an attached window guard at the sill. The first floor has a late 19th-century rectangular bay window, which includes a central sash flanked by narrow sashes on the sides and returns, topped with a dentilled cornice and 20th-century railings on the roof. The second floor features two 12-pane sashes set on a sillband, while the third floor has two 6-pane sashes. The building is finished with a dentilled course and a blocking course at the parapet. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
53, High Street 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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