Crescent House

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6499 QUEEN'S CRESCENT, Southsea 774-1/13/400 (West side) 25/09/72 Crescent House

GV II

Villa. 1847. By TE Owen. Stuccoed. Low pitch Welsh slate roof, projecting rendered stack to left at centre of facing gable and stack to far right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays (right bay wide). Centre bay projects and has banded rustication to ground floor. Italianate features. At centre is a 9-panelled door with fanlight recessed within porch with open round-arched entrance, scrolled carved brackets to soffit. Heavy moulded band at first floor broken at stack and plain across bay window. At first floor is a round-arched sash margin glazed, shaped brackets as imposts, sillband broken at stack, facing gable with projecting verge and moulded bargeboard, shaped brackets to verge and eaves. To right is a 2-storey rectangular tripartite bay, ground and first floor each have 3 narrow 4-pane sashes, pilasters divide lights to ground floor. At far left on first floor is a round-arched margin glazed sash, facing gable with shaped bargeboard and central stack. On left return the garden front facing Kent Road is stepped back from west to east in 3 bays, first 2 bays have low pitch facing gables. INTERIOR not inspected. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 93; Portsmouth Papers No.32: Riley RC: The House & Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owen's Southsea: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SZ6425599150