Listed Building: KERSEY HOUSE (1387157)

Villa. 1847. By TE Owen. Red brick in stretcher bond. Welsh slate roof, brick stack to left and right of rear part, rendered stack on right of front projecting part. Rear part 3 storeys, front 2 storeys, 3 bays. Gothicised. Left quoin of front projection is stone rusticated. Entrance porch on left of front projection has pointed arch opening with eared and rusticated stone surround. To right and to left is a tripartite stone framed, mullion and transomed casement with rusticated quoins. On left, first and second floor each has a 2-light stone mullioned casement within similar surround. On first floor over porch is a narrow sash set under 4 centred stone arch and rusticated surround, with facing gable, on right a 2-light timber mullion and transomed casement set under brick cambered arch. 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)