Queen Elizabeth II Court is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1998. Office.
Queen Elizabeth II Court
- WRENN ID
- blind-turret-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1998
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Queen Elizabeth II Court, Upper High Street
- OS grid reference
- SU 478 296
- Coordinates
- 51.06425, -1.31897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queen Elizabeth II Court is an office building for Hampshire County Council, constructed between 1959 and 1960. The architects involved were C. Cowles-Voysey, J. Brandon-Jones, J. D. Broadbent, and R. Ashton. The building features a brown brick exterior and a steeply pitched red pantiled roof. It has a copper roof and a spire atop a fleche, and is designed around a courtyard on an irregular corner site.
The main block consists of four storeys plus an attic, with a projecting two-storey wing at the front. The windows are mostly segmental headed casement types, primarily with six lights, single-glazed, and set in broad timber frames. The attic windows are smaller and also segmental headed. Access to the building is through triple segmental arches that lead into the courtyard. The fleche has a tiled base, a white-painted clock stage, and an upper polygonal stage with an ogee roof between the stages, topped by a concave-sided copper spire finished with a weather cock.
Inside, the building features unique neo-Romanesque details in the staircase hall. This well-detailed structure, influenced by Scandinavian classical design, serves as a landmark in this part of Winchester. Ashburton Court, a later addition connected to Queen Elizabeth Court, is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Queen Elizabeth II Court receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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