Numbers 1-6 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Numbers 1-6 Sussex Terrace, Southsea, are a terrace of six houses built between 1854 and 1855 by TE Owen. They are constructed of stuccoed walls with a Welsh slate roof of a low pitch, pyramidal to the end houses. Each house has a rendered stack with a moulded cap.

The terrace is three storeys high, with the end houses rising to four storeys. The eleven bays are arranged as one wide, then one narrow, followed by two, two, two, then two narrow bays. The ground floor is banded with rustication, except for the four-storey section of the left-end house. The end houses project forward. Projecting porches with horseshoe arched openings and incised voussoirs are positioned to the right of four of the houses, and the three-storey part of the left-end house, with four stone steps leading up to a recessed panelled door. Doors are typically six-panelled, with No.2 having four, and Nos. 3 and 5 having two. To the left of each of the middle houses is a six-pane sash window set beneath a flat stuccoed arch. Low cast-iron railings run along the basement areas.

A trellis verandah with ornate iron rails, fretted eaves, and a lead-covered lean-to roof extends across the first floor. The first floor of the middle houses, and the three-storey part of the left-end house, features six-pane sash windows set under flat stuccoed arches. The second floor has a sill band and two more six-pane sashes, also under flat stuccoed arches. The left-end house has a similar first-floor sash. The end houses each have a four-pane sash window. A tripartite oriel window, supported by four ornate brackets, sits above the first floor of the right-end house, featuring three four-pane sashes and a narrow four-pane sash on each side, topped with a cornice and lead tented roof. The second and third floors of the end houses have six-pane sashes under flat stuccoed arches, with a moulded architrave to the right-end house’s second-floor sash. Projecting eaves have particularly long shaped eaves brackets to the corners and flanking the third-floor sash; the pyramidal roof is topped with an iron finial.

The right-end house also has a two-storey entrance wing with a projecting, banded, rusticated porch and a slate hood. A recessed panelled door, with fanlight, is set within the porch. A glazed timber first floor has a lean-to roof and three fixed four-pane casements, each with a wooden cambered head. To the right return are three round-headed twelve-pane casements; on the first floor to the right of the timber front is a four-pane sash. Set at right angles is a recessed wing with a tripartite bay window containing three-pane casements, a twelve-pane sash on the first floor, and a six-pane sash to the second floor, facing a gable.

The interior has not been inspected.