Listed Building: 38-42 SOUTH PARADE, SOUTHSEA (1387212)

Terrace of 5 houses, now 1 premise with restaurant, bar and flats. 1860-2, much altered mid-C20. By TE Owen. Stuccoed. Welsh slate hipped roof, rendered stack one to right of Nos 38-41, brick stack to left and right of No.42. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, basement and attic, 9 bays (1:2:2:2:1:1). Symmetrical. Ground floors rusticated, flanking bays project with facing gables. To left of Nos 38 and 41 and right of Nos 39 and 40, 4 stone steps approach a C20 2-leaf glazed door with fanlight, each recessed within a 1-storey projecting porch. Each porch has a round-arched opening and entablature with triglyph frieze except No.40 has no cornice and No.41 has plain front with flat stuccoed arch. To right of Nos 38 and 41, left of No.39 and centre of No.42 is a C20 6-pane shop front casement, on right of No.39 a 12-pane casement and a C20 shopfront infill set between porches of Nos 40 and 41, each set under flat arch. On first floor set between flanking bays is an iron balcony with metal tent roof on iron brackets. Nos 38 and 42 have separate balconies. On first floor No.38 has a 12-pane sash and on far right No.42 a 10-pane sash. Within the recessed front are on left two 12-pane sashes and to right 4 mid C20 2-leaf French casements and one 10-pane sash, each set under flat stuccoed arch. Nos 39-41 has dentilled eaves cornice with brackets. Sillband at second floor with 8 sashes, four 6-pane and two 4-pane, each set under flat stuccoed arch with flanking pilasters, No.42 has a tripartite window with centre 6-pane sash and narrow flanking sashes. No.38 has guilloche band and a 4-light attic casement, No.42 a round-headed attic casement with moulded architrave each set within facing gable. Return on right, No.42, has a similar projecting porch, door and fanlight to Nos 38 and 39, 3 sashes on each of the first and second floors. (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)