Hampshire Terrace

Street guide, Portsea

Hampshire Terrace is a street on the southern edge of Portsea, close to the boundary with Old Portsmouth. The terrace retains some Georgian and early Victorian architecture, making it one of the more architecturally interesting streets in the district. The buildings here are larger and more elegant than the typical Portsea terraced house, suggesting that the street attracted a slightly more prosperous class of resident, perhaps officers or senior dockyard officials rather than ordinary workers. Hampshire Terrace survived the wartime bombing better than many surrounding streets, and several of its original buildings remain in use. The street provides a pleasant walking route between the Portsea area and Old Portsmouth, and sits close to the university campus. Its relative preservation gives it a distinct character within a district that has lost so much of its pre-war fabric.