70 Jessie Road
Southsea
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO4 0EN
023 9283 2751
A.H. Bone was the renowned architect who designed many of Brickwood Brewery’s very distinctive pubs in the Late Victorian and Edwardian periods. He was the first architect in Portsmouth to include a corner tower with a top looking like a witch’s hat, and probably the most spectacular of these is the one on the Nell Gwynne in Southsea which he designed in 1892. Other Portsmouth and Southsea pubs with a witch’s hat tower are the Fawcett and the Florist.
Like many of Southsea’s pubs, the Nell Gwynne is a proper community local with pool, darts and a weekly meat raffle. There are frequent live music acts and the impressive juke box has every top 40 single since 1952.
