Building MPM414 - QUEBEC HOUSE

Bathing house, later hotel, now house. 1754, early and mid C19 alterations. Timber frame clad with weatherboarding with some brick. Low-pitched Welsh slate hipped roof with rendered stack to left and right ridges. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Late C19 main door to left of centre with marginal glazing bars; door case with pilasters and corniced entablature. C20 door to right. 12-pane sashes except for 8-pane window on right of ground floor, those on ground floor with shutters. Moulded cornice to ground floor. Late C20 glass roof light at centre. Left return: 3 bays with two 2-light casement windows on ground floor, left window with leaded glazing. First floor: to left, canted bay window with panelled apron below, cornice over and small-pane glazed casements. On right, 2 small-pane casements. INTERIOR not inspected. Built 1754 by public subscription as a bathing house containing baths replenished by harbour water. One of the earliest buildings still existing connected with seabathing. (Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 24; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 51; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 456).