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Description: | This house was originally situated on the site of Southampton Road and formed an estate of 225 acres with marshes and a quay.
The original part of the house was built sometime in the 17th century and was constructed from chalk rubble in clay and mortar with a facing of squared limestone blocks alternating with squares of flint which gave it a chequerboard effect. To this a 19th century frontage and extension was added.
In 1924 the estate was bought by George Cooper and he used some of his land the build Portsmouth Race Course and British Petroleum erected exploratory rig in a field belong to the estate to test drill for oil.
After the second world war some of the land was sold to the corporation for much needed housing.
These photographs were taken in 1970 during the demolition of the house to make way for the M27. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Portsmouth City Council | Subjects: | Paulsgrove House Building M27 road Portsmouth Race Course | Temporal: | start=1970-10-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Portsmouth City Council Engineers Department | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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