The Globe Public House

No. 76 Bernard Street, The Roundhouse (formerly The Globe Public House)

An early 19th-century house that was converted into a hotel during the later 19th century and subsequently altered to form modern flats. The building is stuccoed with a slate roof and brick chimneys.

The structure is three bays and three storeys with attic conversions. The front (west) elevation has been substantially altered with a modern central entrance featuring a glass door with leaded lights, a corresponding false door to the left, and two-over-two sash windows to each side. Above the doorway sits a cantilevered segmental bow window. The front and south elevations display shallow Doric-style pilaster strips between the window embrasures on the ground floor, with a facia and moulded cornice above. The four-over-four set back horned sash windows on the front elevation are original. The windows on the south elevation at ground floor level are original, though two of the three on the first floor are replacements. All windows have simple cement sills and most have been replaced in a sympathetic arrangement. The building appears to have a mansard roof with a parapet on all but the rear sides. Two chimneys with four pots each are situated on the east side; a double chimney with ten pots stands on the west. Two modern dormer windows appear on the north side, two on the south, and one on the west.

The interior has been substantially stripped during conversion to flats, now featuring a modern staircase and narrow corridors with rooms opening off them. The original plan has been lost.

The building appeared as a hotel on the 1881 Ordnance Survey map of Southampton and sits on the spur between the Rivers Itchen and Test, south of the city centre near the docks. Its location provided easy access to the railway (which reached Southampton by 1840), cattle market, and shipping facilities. The area formed part of a planned 19th-century development. Oxford Street opposite was home to the Seamens' House, which housed sailors including seventeen Titanic crewmen. Southampton's prosperity was founded on the shipping industry and port facilities, making it a prime bombing target in World War II; this early 19th-century building is therefore a relatively rare survival in the city.