Description

PORTSMOUTH

SU60SW LONDON ROAD, North End
774-1/3/289 (West side)
No.163
Fountain Public House and attached
boundary wall and gate piers

II

Public house. c1900. By AE Cogswell. Glazed brick and red
brick in stretcher bond, faience mouldings and dressings.
Interlocking tiled roof with moulded stone capped chimney
stack at centre.
EXTERIOR: 5 bays, 2 storeys. At centre is an open recess with
2 central cast-iron columns. At each side of recess is a light
brown faience pilaster supporting 3 round faience arches.
Canted bay window at centre with rounded corners to glazed
brickwork below sill. 2-light transomed front casement with 8
upper panes and 1-light side casements, each with 6 upper
panes all with leaded lights and stained glass. To left and
right within recess is a 2-leaf half glazed door with etched
glass, each leaf with 4 small lower panels, moulded top and
middle rails to glass panel. Mullioned and transomed 16-pane
overlight with leaded lights and stained glass. Left and right
returns have fixed panels similar to doors and overlights. To
left and right is a transomed casement each has, over transom,
a round-headed 4-pane fixed casement, each pane with leaded
lights and stained glass, keystone and banded sill; all set
within light green glazed brick panel. Flanking each casement
is a light brown faience pilaster. Brown faience entablature
across front.
At far left is a 1-storey entrance, (to flat over) C20 door
with fanlight. 4 attached brass lanterns to front face. First
floor: at centre is a recessed sash window, upper leaf with
round head has 15-panes set within splayed brick jambs under
gauged brick round arch. Flanking stone pilasters with banded
stone cornice to each side of window. To left and right is a
canted oriel window each with wide front sash, upper leaf 15
panes and narrow side sashes. Facing cornice and tented roof.
Stone curved pediment with carved foliated relief below, stone
panelled apron. Projecting stone arch with keystone and facing
gable with moulded stone coped parapet. Oculus within gable.
To left of left bay and right of right bay is a stone
pilaster. To far left and far right is a sash window, each
with 12-pane upper leaf set under a gauged brick round arch
with keystone; moulded stone apron with swag carving. Stone
entablature runs across front. Over central window is a stone

panel set between pilasters with curved moulding coping and
flanking consoles. Lettering within panel read `The Fountain'.
Left and right brick returns to front face have facing gables
and rear elevation large sash windows.
INTERIOR: original interior features intact include the
ornately carved wood `back fitting' with moulded baluster type
supports to shelves with carved wood round arches at top and
flanking pediments, 3 cast-iron fireplaces each with patterned
jambs and head, moulded cornice shelf, round-headed mirror
over shelf with moulded cast-iron jambs and heads.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Boundary wall on far right with entrance
to yard in red brick with 2 stone capped gate piers.
(Nash A: AE Cogswell, Architect within a Victorian City
(Dissertation): Portsmouth Polytechnic: 1975-: APPENDIX PAGE
III).

Listing NGR: SU6497602486

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618201

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