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Hampshire Architecture – TE Owen’s Southsea
In the 19th Century Southsea spread eastwards from the initial building east of the Portsmouth walls. This growth was slow at first, from around 1830-60, with the creation of the villa suburbs around...
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Hampshire Architecture – Later Southsea
TE Owen was responsible for some additional building away from the lodges and villas of western Southsea. At South Parade there is one of his terraces, and just behind in Eastern Villas Road, three...
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Hampshire Architecture – Portsmouth: Portsea and Gunwharf
Portsea was Old Portsmouth’s first suburb, outside of the defensive walls of the old town and of the naval base. Formerly known as Portsmouth Common, the area quickly outgrew Old Portsmouth. It was...
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Hampshire Architecture – Droxford
Droxford is a Hampshire village situated in the Meon Valley. It has the busy A32 running through the middle of it, with the river Meon just to the East along with the former Meon Valley Railway. Most...
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Hampshire Architecture – Portsmouth: Eastney (Listed Buildings)
Eastney is at the south east corner of Portsea Island, meeting Southsea to the west and Milton to the north. Mainly residential with its late Victorian and early C20 terraces, the area near the coast...
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Hampshire Architecture – Portsmouth: City Centre
Heavily bombed in the Second World War (and by a Zeppelin in the First) not so many Victorian or older buildings remain in this area of southern Landport. The photos below cover the University Quarter,...
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Hampshire Architecture – Portsmouth: Mile End / Buckland (Listed Buildings)
There’s little pocket of Georgian and Victorian buildings hiding a few meters from the end of the motorway as you arrive in Portsmouth. 393 Old Commercial Road (the south end of Mile End Terrace) was...
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Hampshire Architecture – Hinton Ampner (Listed Buildings)
Hinton Ampner, together with Bramdean forms a parish midway between Winchester and Petersfield, close to and on the A272. For the purposes of this post, here I am only posting photographs of the...
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Hampshire Architecture – Portsmouth: Stamshaw (Listed Buildings)
A 19th Century dairy depot, a converted 20th Century church, a couple of pubs, a smart row of townhouses reminiscent of Southsea, and that’s pretty much it for listed buildings in this area. The rest...
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Hampshire Architecture – Portsmouth: Milton, Fratton, Hilsea (Listed Buildings)
The merest hints of the former villages of Milton, Fratton and Hilsea before they were swallowed by the rapid Victorian expansion of Portsmouth east and north, with a few old houses (including the TE...
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