The Gravediggers Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Gravediggers Public House
- WRENN ID
- winter-corner-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Gravediggers Public House, Highland Road, City of Portsmouth, PO4 9DD
- OS grid reference
- SZ 659 990
- Coordinates
- 50.78707, -1.06623
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gravediggers Public House is a public house built around 1850, located on Highland Road in Southsea, Portsmouth. The building is finished in stucco and features a slate roof that is hipped on the right side, with rendered stacks on both the left and right sides of the front pitch. It stands two storeys tall and has three bays, although the centre bay is blinded.
On the left side, there is a six-moulded panelled door, while on the far right, there is a three-panelled door, each with an overlight above. Between these doors are two public house windows, each set under a flat arch with rounded corners and a moulded panel below the sill. The doors and windows are flanked by panelled pilasters, and there is a fascia and a moulded dentil cornice above.
On the first floor, the flanking pilasters support a four-pane sash window on both the left and right, each featuring a moulded architrave and keystone. In the centre, there is a painted panel depicting two gravediggers, along with a band cornice and a panelled coped parapet above. Additionally, there is an attached lantern at the top of each ground floor pilaster. The pub front extends to the right, facing White Cloud Place.
Local climate
The Gravediggers Public 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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