Description

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6598 SOUTH PARADE, Southsea
774-1/16/406 Nos.38-42 (Consecutive)
25/09/72

II

Terrace of 5 houses, now 1 premise with restaurant, bar and
flats. 1860-2, much altered mid-C20. By TE Owen. Stuccoed.
Welsh slate hipped roof, rendered stack one to right of Nos
38-41, brick stack to left and right of No.42.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attic, 9 bays (1:2:2:2:1:1).
Symmetrical. Ground floors rusticated, flanking bays project
with facing gables. To left of Nos 38 and 41 and right of Nos
39 and 40, 4 stone steps approach a C20 2-leaf glazed door
with fanlight, each recessed within a 1-storey projecting
porch. Each porch has a round-arched opening and entablature
with triglyph frieze except No.40 has no cornice and No.41 has
plain front with flat stuccoed arch. To right of Nos 38 and
41, left of No.39 and centre of No.42 is a C20 6-pane shop
front casement, on right of No.39 a 12-pane casement and a C20
shopfront infill set between porches of Nos 40 and 41, each
set under flat arch. On first floor set between flanking bays
is an iron balcony with metal tent roof on iron brackets. Nos
38 and 42 have separate balconies. On first floor No.38 has a
12-pane sash and on far right No.42 a 10-pane sash. Within the
recessed front are on left two 12-pane sashes and to right 4
mid C20 2-leaf French casements and one 10-pane sash, each set
under flat stuccoed arch. Nos 39-41 has dentilled eaves
cornice with brackets. Sillband at second floor with 8 sashes,
four 6-pane and two 4-pane, each set under flat stuccoed arch
with flanking pilasters, No.42 has a tripartite window with
centre 6-pane sash and narrow flanking sashes. No.38 has
guilloche band and a 4-light attic casement, No.42 a
round-headed attic casement with moulded architrave each set
within facing gable. Return on right, No.42, has a similar
projecting porch, door and fanlight to Nos 38 and 39, 3 sashes
on each of the first and second floors.
(Portsmouth Papers No.32: Riley RC: The House & Inhabitants of
Thomas Ellis Owen's Southsea: 1980-).

Listing NGR: SZ6508998147

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666871

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