Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum is a Grade I listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Museum. 2 related planning applications.
Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum
- WRENN ID
- young-parapet-harvest
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Museum
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PORTSMOUTH
SU6401 OLD COMMERCIAL ROAD, Landport 774-1/7/280 (West side) 10/01/53 No.393 Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum (Formerly Listed as: COMMERCIAL ROAD, Landport No.393)
GV I
House, now museum. Late C18. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile hipped roof, brick stack on right. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 2 bays. 5 stone steps with flanking attached railings approach recessed 6-fielded panel door, upper panels glazed, panelled reveals, flanking narrow pilasters and cut pediment. On right and to first floor each has two 12-pane sashes, ground floor sashes have attached shutters. Brick dentil band with stone cap, stone coped parapet. Hipped dormer with 6-pane sash. Charles Dickens was born in this house on 7th February 1812. It was then called 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, or 387 Mile End Road. Listed Grade I as the birthplace of Charles Dickens. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 89; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 459).
Listing NGR: SU6440801230
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