About the Queens Hotel in Portsmouth

The original Queen's hotel was built by the architect Augustus Livesay, in 1861. It was then known as Southsea House.

It was an enlarged home owned by Sir John and Lady Morris and later became the Queen's Hotel when it was rented to William Kemp Jnr. Queen's Hotel was one of the first hotels in Southsea.

Around the late 18th century the Queen's Hotel had a yacht club that stood behind it called the Royal Albert. In 1860 the Queens Hotel was surrounded by woods, which were then called Stone Woods.

On December 8th 1891 in the early hours of the Sunday morning a disastrous and fatal fire occurred. Aided by strong winds it raged until the whole of the premises had been completely gutted.

Queen's Hotel was rebuilt in 1903 by the architect T.W.Cutler into the splendid building that stands today, complete with its Edwardian baroque style in brown terracotta.

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