Description

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6499 QUEEN'S CRESCENT, Southsea
774-1/13/398 (West side)
25/09/72 Annesley House

GV II

Villa, later school of Seamanship and Navigation, now house.
1844. By TE Owen. Stuccoed. Low pitch Welsh slate roofs,
hipped to west wing. Rendered stack on right of east wing and
on left of west wing. Irregular plan.
EXTERIOR: east wing 2 storeys, basement and attic, west wing 2
storeys. 4 bays (bay 3 blind).
North elevation facing Sussex Terrace has on the right a
2-storey lean-to section attached to the west wing with on
right a 1-storey projecting porch with 3 narrow arched arcaded
openings divided by broad stuccoed pilasters, recessed
4-panelled door with overlight, small narrow round-headed sash
on left, panelled parapet with Vitruvian scrolls on return. On
each return is a small round-headed opening with iron lattice
grille. To left of porch is a sash set under flat stuccoed
arch. On first floor to right is a 2-leaf 4-pane casement,
transom and fixed round-headed light set under round stuccoed
arch within facing gable with shaped stuccoed brackets to
projecting verge, and on right of recessed west wing is a
4-pane sash set under eaves. On left return is a sash with at
first floor a 4-pane sash each set under flat stuccoed arch.
Further left within the west wing face is a sash and on first
floor a 4-pane sash set under eaves. On left the recessed
central part has a wide sash, first floor band, 2-leaf 6-pane
casement. To left the projecting north face of east wing has
band rusticated ground floor which continues on left return.
Sash set under flat stuccoed arch with incised voussoirs, band
course, moulded first floor sillband with blinded window. Set
within facing gable is a 2-leaf 6-pane attic casement,
projecting bracketed gable verge. On left return is a
tripartite window with 3 narrow sashes set under flat stuccoed
arch with incised voussoirs, plain band course, first floor
sillband with 2 sashes each set within a moulded architrave
with keystone, moulded band course, projecting bracketed
eaves. Further left the lower wing has 3 sashes on ground and
first floors each set under flat stuccoed arch.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs:
Portsmouth: 1974-: 93; Portsmouth Papers No.32: Riley RC: The
House & Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owen's Southsea: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SZ6425599150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666812

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)