Description

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6599 LAWRENCE ROAD, Southsea
774-1/14/389 (West side)
25/09/72 Brandon Court Flats 1-53
(consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
LAWRENCE ROAD, Southsea
Nazareth House)

II

Orphanage and convent, later school, now flats. c1900, later
north wing, altered c1985. By Leonard Stokes.
MATERIALS: 2 shades of red brick in Flemish bond. Steep
pitched Welsh slated roofs, wide external brick stack with
vertical triangular section brick strips and moulded cap on
far left and far right, to left and right of central facing
gable and to left and right of gable ridge; 3 brick stacks
along ridge of north wing.
PLAN: large irregular H-plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 11 bays (1/2/1/1/1/2/1/1/1/2/1).
Main east elevation has strong vertical emphasis with fretted
skyline of tall chimneys and gables. Wide brick pilaster at
first floor with wavy coping at left flank and on right of
bays 1 and 6. Ground floor brickwork rendered c1985.
At centre of east elevation facing Lawrence Road is a 1-storey
projecting flat roofed porch with on left the original
recessed boarded door with patterned iron strap at top and
bottom, and a small iron barred viewing panel set under flat
brick arch recessed behind opening with stepped brick jambs
and brick ogee arch, brick coped parapet with pediment over
entrance.
On left and right return is a recessed casement set under flat
gauged brick arch within opening with elliptical brick arch
and brick label.
To left of porch are 6 casements, each with central transom,
pivoted upper leaf 2-panes wide with segmental glazing bars
and 4-pane lower leaf. At far left is a similar paired
casement.
To right of porch are 8 similar casements, the 4 right-hand
casements within the slightly recessed north wing are wider.
Stepped brick band at first floor. On far left is first floor
18-pane sash with transom and 6-pane casement set under flat
gauged brick arch with drip mould, flanking vertical
triangular brick strips running through third floor, moulded
brick band. On third floor is a 24-pane sash set under flat
gauged brick arch, cornice and dormer facing gable. On right

and to right of centre part are similar paired first and
second floor sashes, cornice and dormer facing gable, each
first floor bay is flanked by a late C20 12-pane sash.
At left and right of centre part is a similar 18-pane first
floor sash with transom and 6-pane casement to left window.
Left sash has on left a late C20 12-pane sash. Third floor has
similar 24-pane sash set under flat gauged brick arch, curved
brick pediment.
At centre is an 18-pane sash set within projecting brick bay
over porch, flat gauged brick arch, stepped brickwork back to
recessed face. First floor has 18-pane sash set under flat
gauged brick arch, curved pediment. Second floor has a
round-headed 15-pane unequal sash with radial glazing set
under round brick arch. Heads of sashes are higher than
flanking windows.
To right the recessed north wing has on first and second
floors six 12-pane margin glazed sashes, each with transom and
2-pane fixed casement with segmental top glazing bar set under
flat gauged brick arch. Each of the 3 right bays has facing
brick dormer gable with kneelers.
At centre of rear elevation is a 4-storey tower, 2 bays wide
with the elevation divided into 4 narrow bays by vertical
brick strips, heavy moulded brick castellated parapet crowned
with an open copper domed cupola.
The west chapel wing has a large elaborate Neo-Perpendicular
stone mullioned south window, stone decorated strips flanking,
surmounted by figure finials.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 66; Lloyd DW: Buildings
of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 106; The
Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 449).

Listing NGR: SZ6425599150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26617936

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas