Description

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6498 KENT ROAD, Southsea
774-1/15/373 (South side)
Dover Court

II

House, now school. 1848-49. By TE Owen. Roughcast. Welsh slate
roof, brick stack on right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, tower bay 4 storeys, 5 bays.
Right hand bay and bay to right of tower each have facing
gable. Rusticated stone strips to quoins. Entrance porch on
left of right bay 1 storey and attic, has 3 pointed arches
with stone dressings, and within recess paired pointed arches.
Door on left of porch with pointed fanlight. Gable facing
dormer over with 6-pane casements. On right 4-light stone
mullion and transomed window with two 3-pane lower casements
and two 2-pane upper casements set in rusticated stone
surround, drip stone label with moulded bosses, first floor
window similar with two 3-pane casements, attic has narrow
casement, projecting bracketed eaves to gable. To left of
porch small fixed 12-pane casement set in rusticated stone
surround with dripstone label. On first floor stone mullion
and transomed window with rusticated stone surround and
4-centred arch with dripstone, has two 3-pane lower casements
and two 2-pane upper casements, each under lancet arch, attic
has narrow casement in rusticated stone surround. To left
tower bay has narrow 12-pane sash set in rusticated stone
surround with dripstone, first and second floor windows
similar, 3rd floor has paired casement in similar stone
surround with lancet arches and dripstones, bracketed cornice
and flat topped hipped roof. To left stone mullion and
transomed window similar to right bay, on first floor two
2-light casements in similar surrounds, no drip-stones. At
rear 2 projecting wings with similar windows. TE Owen's own
house.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs:
Portsmouth: 1974-: 93; Portsmouth Papers No.32: Riley RC: The
House & Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owen's Southsea: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SZ6398699116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538060

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)