Building MPM456 - 42 CASTLE ROAD

House. c1820-30. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile hipped roof, brick stack at centre. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Recessed entrance bay on left has door of 6 moulded panels in doorcase with thin reeded pilasters, flat hood over with shaped brackets. To right, in projecting bay, 15-pane pointed arch sash with intersecting glazing bars at top set within pointed brick-arched reveal. 2 similar windows on first floor. Boxed eaves. [1]

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This building appears to be the Manse (ministers house) to the Ebenezer Chapel/Great Southsea Street Baptist Chapel which is refered to by Offord as having Gothic windows. The chapel formerly stood on the site now occupied by 42a-42e Castle Road. [2, p83]

<1> Historic England, The National Heritage List for England (Index). SPM35.

<2> Offord, J, 1989, Churches, Chapels and Places of Worship on Portsea Island (Bibliographic reference). SPM39.