Building MPM604 - NUMBERS 13-18 KINGS TERRACE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

Restored central house to Kings Terrace. Three bays, buff brick with broad pediment above. Doorway and ground-floor windows in arched recesses. Only surviving part of an early 19th century terrace built c. 1810 by John Williams, Comptroller of Customs in Portsmouth, on land purchased from Thomas Croxton. The rest of the terrace was destroyed by Second World War bombing, and the surviving central house was restored after the war. [1, p520]

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3 houses (part of original terrace) now offices. c1810. Nos 17 and 18 rebuilt mid-C20. Yellow stock brick in Flemish bond. Nos 13 and 14 Welsh slate roof, brick stack to right. Nos 15 and 16 artificial slate, C20 roof concealed. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement to Nos 13/14, 15/16, 17/18. 7 bays (2:3:2), Nos 15/16 (centre 3 bays) projects slightly. 5 stone steps with attached railings approach on left of Nos 13/14 a 6-panelled door, on left of Nos 15/16 a 4-moulded panelled door and to right of Nos 17/18 a 6-panelled moulded and fielded door, each with fanlight set under gauged brick arch. To right of Nos 13/14 and to left of Nos 17/18 is 1 and on right of Nos 15/16 2 round-headed 2-leaf 4-pane casements each with margin glazing and ornate radial glazing at head set under gauged brick round arch. Doors and windows are set within recessed arcade. Attached area iron railings to Nos 13/14, 15/16 with linked circle band. Sillband at first floor with 7 (2:3:2) 12-pane sashes, each set under flat rendered arch. Sillband at second floor with 7 unequal sashes, Nos 15/16 6-panes, Nos 17/18 9-panes, each set under similar flat rendered arch. Paired brick dentil course, moulded stone cornice and coped parapet. Nos 15/16 has facing brick dentilled pediment with stone cornice and ball finial. Small dormer to Nos 13/14 and 15/16, 13/14 has round head. INTERIOR not inspected. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 90; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd D: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 461).

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 90
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 461

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<1> O'Brien, Bailey, Pevsner, Lloyd, 2018, The Buildings of England Hampshire: South (Bibliographic reference). SPM585.

<2> Historic England, The National Heritage List for England (Index). SPM35.