Description

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6399 BATH SQUARE, The Point
774-1/11/439 (West side)
30/10/69 Quebec House

GV II

Bathing house, later hotel, now house. 1754, early and mid C19
alterations. Timber frame clad with weatherboarding with some
brick. Low-pitched Welsh slate hipped roof with rendered stack
to left and right ridges.
2 storeys, 3 bays. Late C19 main door to left of centre with
marginal glazing bars; door case with pilasters and corniced
entablature. C20 door to right. 12-pane sashes except for
8-pane window on right of ground floor, those on ground floor
with shutters. Moulded cornice to ground floor. Late C20 glass
roof light at centre. Left return: 3 bays with two 2-light
casement windows on ground floor, left window with leaded
glazing. First floor: to left, canted bay window with panelled
apron below, cornice over and small-pane glazed casements. On
right, 2 small-pane casements. INTERIOR not inspected.
Built 1754 by public subscription as a bathing house
containing baths replenished by harbour water. One of the
earliest buildings still existing connected with seabathing.
(Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 24; Lloyd DW: Buildings
of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 51; The
Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 456).

Listing NGR: SZ6285599502

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666509

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)