Description

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6499 GROVE ROAD SOUTH, Southsea
774-1/13/352 (West side)
No.35

GV II

House, now 3 flats. 1913. Red brick in Flemish bond and timber
frame with stucco panels. Steep pitched plain tile roofs with
clustered brick stack on left and right.
EXTERIOR: 3 bays. 2 storeys. Facade facing "The Retreat" has
on right of first bay a projecting timber porch open at front
with moulded timber supports. Each left and right return has a
mullioned and transomed casement with leaded lights and
coloured glass. At rear of porch is a recessed half-glazed
door with 2 moulded lower panels, glazed leaded lights to
upper panels. Jettied half timbered first floor with stuccoed
panels, facing weatherboarded gable, spike finial, 5-light
wide mullioned and transomed casement with leaded lights and
coloured glass over transom, bracketed sill. On left and right
return is a similar 2-light casement set under eaves. To left
of porch within recessed bay is a 2-light mullion and double
transomed casement with opening lights below lower transom and
leaded lights with coloured glass above top transom set under
gauged brick flat arch, terracotta band at sill and head
level. First floor has a 4-pane casement set under gauged
brick flat arch. To right of porch is a narrow mullioned fixed
casement and further right a 2-light mullion and transomed
casement with leaded lights and coloured glass over transom.
On first floor is a small 2-light casement set directly under
projecting eaves. Further right is a recessed tripartite
canted bay with at front a 4-light wide mullion and double
transomed casement and similar flanking 2-light wide
casements, leaded lights with coloured glass over top transom.
Jettied first floor with facing gable, half timbered with
arched braces and stuccoed panels, spike finial, 4-light wide
mullion and transomed casement with leaded light and coloured
glass over transom, set under pedimental shaped flat timber
lintel.
Return on right facing Grove Road South has on left a 2-leaf
half-glazed French casement with side screens, leaded lights
over transom. On right is a tripartite canted bay similar to
main facade with on first floor a half-timbered facing gable
and stuccoed panels, 4-lights wide transom and mullioned
casement. To left of gable at roof ridge level is a facing
half-timbered gable with 6 small 6-pane casements set under
deep timber lintel with round-headed soffit inset over each

casement.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SZ6443499181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398289

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