A Grade 2 listed three story property. Originally Brankesmere House was built and became the family home for Sir John Brickwood, proprietor of the Brickwoods brewing business, and would have been about 10,000sqft (900sqm) in floor area with extensive grounds. Built in Victorian times but heavily influenced by Jacobean, Tyrolean and French architectural styles it would have been one of the significant homes within Southsea, with high quality and skilled workmanship typical of the era and displayed in splendour externally and internally. Subsequently, it became a girl’s boarding school, a Police HQ and a social services office before being vertically divided into 3 dwellings, being a Portsmouth Society best restoration finalist. The whole property is listed Grade 2 and is located in the Owen Conservation Area, the prime residential area of Southsea master planned and developed by Thomas Ellis Owen (1805-1862).

The property has been extensively restored by the current owner and provides ample and flexible accommodation spread over lower ground, ground floor, and part first floor. Upon entering from the terrace through double doors there is a principal reception room, ideal for family living and entertaining. Leading off this room is a further reception room used as a dining room and a kitchen. A small cloakroom is to the side and a staircase from the rear of the kitchen which leads to the first floor.

The first floor comprises three double bedrooms, an en suite bath/shower room and a family shower room. An interesting feature of this property is that there are two staircases leading from the ground floor to the lower ground floor - each located at opposing ends to the property. At mezzanine level there is a doorway leading to the orangery, and at the lower ground floor there are a number of rooms offering flexible uses according to the owner’s needs.

Currently there is a cinema room with natural light, a gym with a bedroom leading off with natural light and additionally a shower room. Further, there is a utility room, boiler room, a storeroom and a large home office. However this floor level could be configured in a number of different ways according to need.

The garden is a real feature of this home being south west facing and offering space and privacy behind its high boundary wall. Leading from the terrace down some steps there is a large lawn area, attractive mature landscaped borders, a timber bridge leading over the water to a summer house and the large natural water bathing pool centred in front of the house.