Queen Elizabeth II Court

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.