Listed Building: 88,88A AND 92-96 ST GEORGES SQUARE (1387160)

House (Nos 88 and 88A) and public house (Nos 92-96), now 4 houses. Early C19. Stuccoed. Nos 88 and 88A has Welsh slate mansard roof with brick stack to rear pitch at centre. Nos 92-96 roof concealed, rendered stack on right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, Nos 88 and 88A 1 wide bay. Nos 92-96 4 bays. Nos 88 and 88A has vermiculated rusticated quoin strips. To left 6 panelled door with overlight set under rusticated flat arch with vermiculated keystones. On right C20 24-pane sash, rusticated architrave. Further right 3 stone steps approach recessed 6-panelled door with fluted head and thin radial glazed fanlight, flanking pilasters, console brackets supporting broken entablature and pedimented hood with swagged urn decoration to tympanum, vermiculated strip on left side. First floor tripartite bow window with centre 24-pane sash and flanking 18-pane sashes, fluted pilasters divide lights, frieze and cornice. Second floor has 2 sashes each set under flat arch, vermiculated and rusticated flush quoins. Enriched patterned frieze and block parapet. Flat roof dormer. Nos 92-96 has on right C20 door with fanlight set under round architrave arch, further right 4-pane sash set under flat arch with bracketed cornice. On far left is the former pub front with C20 casements and sash set between original articulating pilasters, fascia and cornice with console bracket to right pilaster, front continues on left return to Butcher Street. First floor has four 4-pane sashes and second floor four 9-pane unequal sashes each with moulded architrave. Band course and coped parapet. INTERIOR not inspected. (Lloyd PW: Buildings of Porstmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 51). Selected Sources Books and journals Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 51