Ferry House
FERRY HOUSE, CANUTE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252946
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Ferry House
- Statutory Address:
- FERRY HOUSE, CANUTE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252946
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Ferry House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FERRY HOUSE, CANUTE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FERRY HOUSE, CANUTE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 42729 10988
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
SU 4210 SOUTHAMPTON CANUTE ROAD
5/50 Ferry House
GV II
Office building. c.1870 with some alterations, late C19 and 1989. Yellow brick
(Beaulieu buff) with a Welsh slate roof. T-shaped plan with a 3x5 block on the
north side and a 6x4 block on the south with projecting porches on the north-
west, south-west and south-east elevations, all three of which show evidence
(straight joints) of being later additions, but closely contemporary with the
original build. Brickwork with horizontal rustication to ground floor, plain
sash windows of 4 panes, hipped roofs. Moulded band at first floor and cornice
levels. North elevation has a 1989 reddish brick addition. Single bay 2 storey
porch with two attached rusticated brick piers. North elevation has thus 6.1.3
windows. East elevation is 5 windows with 3-bay porch, originally one storey
raised to 2 storeys 1989 in reddish brick; it carries marble war memorial
plaques on either side of the doorway. South elevation is 3.6 windows with
3-bay single storey porch covering the join. Tall brick stacks. Interior:
(refurbished 1989). A very unaltered example of a custom built Victorian office
block with large high ceiling rooms, good joinery, some cornices and an open
well stair within an arcaded space (arcade infilled 1989). This has stone
treads, a wrought iron decorative balustrade and a mahogany rail. Wrought iron
screen at head of stairs. A good example of Victorian functional design built
as the Docks Board Office and later used as the Southern Railway Docks Office.
Listing NGR: SU4267711030
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 135998
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/201502
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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