Listed Building: CRESCENT HOUSE (1387151)

Villa. 1847. By TE Owen. Stuccoed. Low pitch Welsh slate roof, projecting rendered stack to left at centre of facing gable and stack to far right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays (right bay wide). Centre bay projects and has banded rustication to ground floor. Italianate features. At centre is a 9-panelled door with fanlight recessed within porch with open round-arched entrance, scrolled carved brackets to soffit. Heavy moulded band at first floor broken at stack and plain across bay window. At first floor is a round-arched sash margin glazed, shaped brackets as imposts, sillband broken at stack, facing gable with projecting verge and moulded bargeboard, shaped brackets to verge and eaves. To right is a 2-storey rectangular tripartite bay, ground and first floor each have 3 narrow 4-pane sashes, pilasters divide lights to ground floor. At far left on first floor is a round-arched margin glazed sash, facing gable with shaped bargeboard and central stack. On left return the garden front facing Kent Road is stepped back from west to east in 3 bays, first 2 bays have low pitch facing gables. INTERIOR not inspected. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 93; Portsmouth Papers No.32: Riley RC: The House & Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owen's Southsea: 1980-). Selected Sources Books and journals Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 93 Riley, R C, 'Portsmouth Papers' in The House and Inhabitants of Thomas Ellis Owens Southsea, , Vol. 32, (1980)