Listed Building: 22 AND 24 VILLIERS ROAD, SOUTHSEA (1387267)

Pair of semi-detached houses. 1853-4. Stuccoed. Interlocking tiled roof, recessed projections on left of No.24 are hipped. EXTERIOR: each has 2 storeys, attic and basement. Ground floor has rusticated flanking quoin strips with flanking pilasters to first floor. No.22 has within right recessed 2-storey projecting porch, 4 stone steps approach 8-panelled recessed door with open gable porch with shaped bargeboards, on first floor 6-pane unequal sash. No.24 has within left recessed projection a C20 lean-to 1-storey entrance porch with C20 doors, and over projection on first floor one 6-pane unequal sash. On left of No.22 and right of No.24 rectangular bay with tripartite timber mullion casements to front with flanking pilasters, frieze and cornice band course. Each bay has plain tile hipped roof and panelled aprons, 3 shortened mullion casements to basement. On first floor each has two 12-pane sashes each set within eaved stuccoed surround. Each has 1 dormer with 2-light casement with gable facing, projecting verge and bargeboard. To left of No.24 projection has 4-pane casement with 6-pane casement on first floor. 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)