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Latitude: 51.0643 / 51°3'51"N
Longitude: -1.319 / 1°19'8"W
OS Eastings: 447818
OS Northings: 129657
OS Grid: SU478296
Mapcode National: GBR 861.9C0
Mapcode Global: FRA 8639.RZ2
Plus Code: 9C3W3M7J+PC
Entry Name: Queen Elizabeth II Court
Listing Date: 24 April 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1323707
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469232
ID on this website: 101323707
Location: Hyde, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23
County: Hampshire
District: Winchester
Electoral Ward/Division: St Paul
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Winchester
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire
Church of England Parish: Winchester Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Winchester
Tagged with: County hall
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 June 2023 to correct a typo in the address
SU 4729
869/2/10018
WINCHESTER
UPPER HIGH STREET
Queen Elizabeth II Court
II
Offices for Hampshire County Council. 1959-60. C. Cowles-Voysey, J. Brandon-Jones, J. D. Broadbent and R. Ashton. Brown brick. Red pantiled steeply pitched roof to eaves. Copper roof and spire to fleche. Courtyard plan on irregular corner site.
Main block of four storeys plus attic with projecting wing of two storeys in front. Segmental headed casement windows, mostly of six-lights, single-glazed, in broad timber frames. Attic windows smaller, also segmental headed. Entrance through triple segmental arches into courtyard. Fleche with tiled base, white-painted clock stage and upper polygonal stage with ogee roof between stages and topped by a concave-sided copper spire, finished with a weather cock.
INTERIOR: has idiosyncratic neo-Romanesque details to staircase hall.
A beautifully detailed building in a Scandinavian classical-influenced idiom, which is a landmark in this part of Winchester.
Ashburton Court, a later building joined to Queen Elizabeth Court, is not of special interest.
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