Description

PORTSMOUTH

SU6300 KENT STREET, Portsea
774-1/8/299 (North side)
10/01/53 The Beneficial School

II*

School, now training centre. 1784, extended 1836, restored
late C20. Red brick in Flemish bond, ground floor front
stucco. Welsh slated roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays (centre bay wide). Ground floor
horizontal rusticated. At centre recessed 2-leaf door, 12
fielded panels under large fanlight with radial looped glazing
bars running into it from centre, panelled reveal and soffit,
flanking engaged Doric columns, broken entablature and broken
pediment. On left and right is a 6-pane sash set under
rusticated flat arch. At centre of first floor is a large
Venetian window running through first and second floors with
full width outer arch light, centre 15-pane unequal sash,
3-pane round-headed light over set under round stuccoed arch,
flanking 8-pane sashes, articulating pilasters have fluting
and leaf decorations to necking, broken entablature has frieze
with flukes and paterae, sill has consoles in line with
pilasters; 12-pane sashes flanking set under flat gauged brick
arches. Facing brick dentil pediment and cornice with stone
capping contains tablet inscribed "This building was erected
in 1784 by the Beneficial Society for their Free School for
Boys established 1755 and enlarged 1836 for the purpose of
adding a Girls School to the Institution". Left return (west
elevation) has 22 bays, the 7 bays to the right was the extent
of the original school prior to extension. Right return (east
elevation) wall has been rebuilt.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 28; Lloyd DW: Buildings
of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 50; The
Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 458).

Listing NGR: SU6330700180

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Groundlings Theatre official website
• Wikidata Q17554799

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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