Listed Building: CHARLES DICKENS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM (1103850)

House, now museum. Late C18. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile hipped roof, brick stack on right. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 2 bays. 5 stone steps with flanking attached railings approach recessed 6-fielded panel door, upper panels glazed, panelled reveals, flanking narrow pilasters and cut pediment. On right and to first floor each has two 12-pane sashes, ground floor sashes have attached shutters. Brick dentil band with stone cap, stone coped parapet. Hipped dormer with 6-pane sash. Charles Dickens was born in this house on 7th February 1812. It was then called 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, or 387 Mile End Road. Listed Grade I as the birthplace of Charles Dickens. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 89; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 459). Selected Sources Books and journals Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 89 Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 459