5-6, Square Winchester, England

Listed Building Data

5-6, Square has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1061373
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
11 July 2002
Name
5-6, THE SQUARE
Location
5-6, THE SQUARE
District
Winchester
County
Hampshire
Grid Reference
SU 48120 29400
Easting
448119.5500
Northing
129399.9663

Listed Building Description

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869/0/10064 THE SQUARE 11-JUL-02 5-6

GV II

Pair of houses, converted into dispensary; now offices. Circa late C18; converted into dispensary 1875; converted into offices 1983. Stuccoed. Clay plain tile hipped roof behind parapet. Rendered end stacks. PLAN: Pair of 3-bay houses, converted into dispensary and later into offices. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar. 3:3 bay south front with moulded string courses and moulded cornice and blocking course, rusticated quoins; 4-pane sashes with keyblocks; two C20 dormers. North front similar, but with tripartite ground floor sashes in rusticated architraves, first floor windows in moulded architraves, centre right blocked and doorway to left with panelled door. INTERIOR remodelled in 1983 as offices, but retaining servants' winder stairs at west end with stick balusters. NOTE: This pair of late Georgian houses was converted in 1875 into The Winchester Provident Dispensary and the interior remodelled as offices in 1983. Externally, an imposing pair of late C18 houses and in spite internal alterations the exterior has considerable townscape and group value in the centre of Winchester facing the Cathedral.