Listed Building: 4 AND 6 VILLIERS ROAD, SOUTHSEA (1387259)

Pair semi-detached houses. 1855. Possibly by TE Owen. Stuccoed. Low pitched Welsh slate hipped roof, rendered stack to centre and to right. 3 storeys, 4 bays, 2:2. Wide stuccoed strips to quoins, horizontal rusticated to ground floor. No.4 has on left 6-panelled door, upper 4 panels glazed with overlight set in C20 plain recessed surround. On right of No.4 and to left of No.6 each has rectangular stone bay window with wide flanking pilasters and narrow pilasters dividing tripartite 4 pane sashes at front and single return sashes, frieze and band cornice broken over entrance to No.4. On first floor Nos 4 and 6 each has two 12-pane sash set in moulded architrave, and on second floor 6-pane sashes with sillband course. Projecting eaves with modillion brackets. Entrance to No.6, C20 door with fanlight in narrow recessed 2-storey extension on left with flanking pilasters to ground floor, plain band course, small round-headed window over and unmoulded cornice and blocking course parapet. INTERIOR not inspected. (Portsmouth Papers No.32: Riley RC: The House & Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owen's Southsea: 1980-). Selected Sources Books and journals Riley, R C, 'Portsmouth Papers' in The House and Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owens Southsea, , Vol. 32, (1980)