Hampshire Treasures
Volume 11 ( Portsmouth)
Page 200 - St Thomas
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| Description and Date | Remarks | Protection | Grid Ref. and Punchcard No. | |
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| House C.18 |
No. 14. Two storeys, rendered front with parapet. Canted oriel bay window and sashes on first floor, two sash windows on ground floor. Later doorway. Group value. | T&CP Act CA |
SZ 630 993 2713 45 |
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| Buildings and their related settings |
The Square Tower, King's Stairs, Sally Port, Eighteen Gun Battery, Round Tower, Flanking battery, Walls. The Square Tower stands at the south-west end of the High Street, part of the sea defences first constructed 1494, but repaired and reconstructed since. Once residence of the Governor of Portsmouth, then a powder magazine. Plain massive square ashlar tower. Ashlar wall to north-west connects tower to King's Stairs, and the Sally Port. From the Sally Port the Eighteen Gun Battery extends northwards to the Round Tower with a return section at right angles known as the Flanking Battery. The Round Tower is probably the earliest of the stone built defences, circa 1415. It is cylindrical with string courses dividing the three storeys. The ground floor circa 1538-40 gun ports of this period mostly blocked. Upper storeys probably part of Sir Bernard de Gomme's reconstruction, but largely rebuilt in early C.19, when the interior was recast with massive brickwork vaulting, casements behind the gun ports. Top reconstruction circa 1847-50 and adapted as gun platform. Eighteen Gun battery and Flanking battery are part of the last phase of De Gomme's scheme, reconstructed 1847-50, when casements deepened and upper tier added to the flanking battery. The seaward walls were all refaced in ashlar at this time. | T&CP Act CA SAM 261 |
SZ 630 992 2713 47 |
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| Building C.18/19 |
No. 15. The Post Office. Three storeys, grey headers with red brick dressings and quoins. Header bands between storeys, and as a cornice. Parapet with stone coping. Mansard old tile roof. Two recessed framed sash windows on upper floors, surmounted by cambered arches. Mid C.19 small double shop front with canted bay windows. Central glazed front door, all under tiled pent roof. | T&CP Act CA |
SZ 629 994 2713 49 |
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| House C.18/19 |
No. 23. Altered. Three storeys, red brick. Moulded brick cornice and parapet with stone coping. Two recessed sash windows on second floor with flat brick arches. C.19 canted bay windows to first floor, the sash lights divided by incised panelled pilasters, frieze and moulded cornice. Later C.19 shop front converted to modern garage and entrance on ground floor. | T&CP Act CA |
SZ 629 994 2713 50 |
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| Building C.19 |
No. 35. Three storeys red brick, on corner site. Brick dentil cornice with stone capping and brick parapet with stone coping. Second floor has two recessed sash windows surmounted by flat gauged brick arches. First floor has C.19 canted bay window. Ground floor has restored early C.19 shop front. Glazed and panelled door with rectangular fanlight. Two storey extension to the west. | T&CP Act CA |
SZ 629 995 2713 51 |
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