Description

PORTSMOUTH

SU60SE TANGIER ROAD, Baffins
774-1/4/129 (West side)
Nos.61 AND 63
Tangier Public House

II

Public house. c1912. By AE Cogswell. Glazed brick in stretcher
bond, dark green to ground floor and pale green to first
floor, faience mouldings and dressings. Welsh slated steep
pitched roof, hipped over splayed corners. Brick stack with
moulded stone cap at far left, centre, and far right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 bays. Tangier road facade has on far
left a half glazed door with 2 moulded lower panels, patterned
etched glass to upper panels with lettering 'Saloon Bar',
overlight with leaded lights set under fascia. Flanking
pilasters with brown faience capital and necking. At centre is
a similar 2-leaf door with overlight and flanking pilasters,
etched glass to upper panels with lettering `Bottle and Jug'.
To left and right are 2 round-headed pub casements with
patterned etched glass each set under dark green glazed brick
round arch with brown faience label, imposts, and sillband.
Lettering on glass `Saloon' to left windows and 'Public Bar'
to right. Green faience fascia with applied gold lettering
'Spirits. Portsmouth United Ales and Stouts', brown faience
cornice. At each end of fascia and to angles of splayed corner
is a gold faience sculpture with central Acanthus leaf motif;
Ionic volutes and scrolled sides. First floor has 5 sashes
each set under dark green glazed brick arch. At far left
return is a brick gable with stone coped parapet. At far right
the corner with Chesterfield Road is splayed with flanking
pilasters similar to front. At right flank within recessed
porch is a similar 2-leaf door with overlight. Lettering on
etched glass panels 'Public Bar'. To left flank and first
floor are 2 tiled murals by Carters of Poole. The ground floor
mural depicts the 'Grand Market, Tangiers' and first floor
mural an arab horseman. The fascia has applied gold lettering
'The Tangier'. Right return to Chesterfield Road is similar to
Tangier Road facade with 5 similar round-arched casements,
etched glass and lettering. First floor has 4 similar sashes
each set under segmental arch.

Listing NGR: SU6621201464

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666892

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  For the Record
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)