Listed Building: 5 SUSSEX PLACE, SOUTHSEA (1387223)

House. 1842. By TE Owen. Red buff brick in Flemish bond. Steeply pitched Welsh slate roof, brick stack at centre on rear pitch. 2 storeys and attic; 3 bays, left bay projecting and gabled. At centre, 4-panelled door with 3-centred head set within gabled porch with cross finial and with 4-centred chamfered arched entrance with stone dressings. On left, 2-light 16-pane casement, with stone jambs and label drip mould. On right 2 blind paired stone-mullioned slits. On first floor two 2-light casements set in stone surround, on left of 6 panes and on right of 8 panes; eaves over on corbel brackets with patterned faces. First and second floors of left bay each have one 2-light 12-pane casement, smaller on second floor, set in stone surrounds; coped gable with kneelers. Rear partially rebuilt C20. 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)