Description

PORTSMOUTH

SU60SE EASTERN ROAD
774-1/4/10 (East side)
10/01/53 Great Salterns House and attached
walls

II

House, now sporting club's offices. c1820. Stucco. Concealed
flat roof with stuccoed stack at each end.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 bays. Horizontal rusticated ground
floor, vermiculated at quoins and at junction with porch,
rusticated quoins and centre part of first and second floors.
At centre of main west facing front is a projecting porch
approached by 2 curved stair flights each with 12 'Sedan'
patterned steps and iron handrail leading to entry at first
floor level which has a 2-leaf door, each leaf with moulded
lower panel and glazed 4-pane upper panel with margin glazing
set within recessed panel. Porch has flanking rusticated
quoins, recessed panel on left and right returns each with a
round-arched niche, cornice and block parapet. Ground floor
has on far left a 9-pane unequal sash with margin glazing set
under flat stuccoed arch, and to left and right of porch is a
blinded window opening. On far right is a C20 door partially
set within the original window opening. Band course at first
floor level with on left and right of porch two 12-pane and
margin glazed sashes each with moulded architrave and eared
sill, recessed apron panel; each pair set within recessed
panel, moulded band over broken at quoins and centre bay. On
second floor to left and right of porch are two 9-pane and
margin glazed unequal sashes each set under flat stuccoed arch
with moulded architrave. Similar sash at centre with no
architrave and set under flat voussoir arch, moulded band
fascia and cornice with block parapet.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: flanking left and right are stuccoed
1-storey high screen walls, each with cornice and block
parapet. Left screen wall has opening with fretted iron
overlight and on right screen wall is a blinded opening, lower
walls on right with opening set under stuccoed segmental arch.
On right attached English band red brick boundary wall with a
brick pierced opening and ornate patterned iron 2-leaf gate.
(Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs:
Portsmouth: 1974-: 116).

Listing NGR: SU6610802158

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666767

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