Quebec House is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1969. House.

Quebec House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Portsmouth
Constituency
Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1969
Type
House
Address
Quebec House, Bath Square, City of Portsmouth
OS grid reference
SZ 628 994
Coordinates
50.79164, -1.10955
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quebec House is a building located in Bath Square, The Point, Portsmouth. It was originally built in 1754 as a bathing house and later converted into a hotel, and is now a private house. The structure features a timber frame clad with weatherboarding and some brick, topped with a low-pitched hipped roof made of Welsh slate, which has rendered stacks at both ridges. The building is two storeys high and has three bays.

On the façade, there is a late 19th-century main door to the left of centre, which includes marginal glazing bars and is framed by a door case with pilasters and a corniced entablature. To the right of this door is a 20th-century door. The windows are primarily 12-pane sashes, except for an 8-pane window on the right side of the ground floor, with shutters on the ground floor windows. A moulded cornice runs along the ground floor. A late 20th-century glass roof light is situated at the centre of the building.

On the left return, there are three bays featuring two 2-light casement windows on the ground floor, with the left window having leaded glazing. The first floor includes a canted bay window on the left with a panelled apron below, a cornice above, and small-pane glazed casements, while the right side has two small-pane casements.

The interior of the building has not been inspected. Quebec House is notable for being one of the earliest surviving buildings associated with sea bathing, constructed through public subscription and containing baths supplied with harbour water.

Local climate

Quebec 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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