Description

VERNON SQUARE
1.
1577
(East Side)
No 1
SZ 5992 2/152

II

2.
Circa 1850. Double fronted semi-detached house including No 1 Belvedere
Street. Tall building for Ryde. Four storeys and semi-basement, coursed
rendering with wrap round pilasters rising from plinth to support heavy
second floor block cornice. Low pitch hipped slate roof with overhanging
eaves. Entrance fronts to Vernon Square and Belvedere Street: three
windows, recessed, sash most of glazing bars intact. Large, broad, enclosed
porch with wrap round pilaster frieze, cornice and blocking course. Modern
recessed doors but with narrow rectangular fanlights set in architrave sur-
rounds. The porch of No 1 Vernon Square has two extra pilasters flanking
front and the first floor above has been boxed in and glazed. No 1
Belvedere Street has a flight of twelve steps with landing due to sloping
site. The North front facing Melville Street is also of three windows,
the centre ones blind. But the ground and first floors have superimposed
rendered rectangular bays of one window to each side, glazing bars intact,
flanked on both floors, as with porches, by wrap round pilasters to front and
to wall, with frieze and cornice to both floors. Parapet over with terrace
for second floor windows.

Listing NGR: SZ5945692530

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563502

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