Peninsula Square

You could be forgiven if you thought Peninsula Square was built for the purpose of providing elegant housing around beautiful formal gardens. In fact for three hundred years the site was a military barracks and most of the buildings you see were built at the very end of Queen Victoria’s reign; for a hundred years what are now the formal gardens were a huge concrete parade ground. Before the barracks, there was a royal palace and earlier still a succession of fortified buildings including Winchester Castle itself.

Peninsula Square forms part of the Peninsula Barracks Estate which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Conservation Area subject to stringent planning guidance and controls: many of the buildings are individually listed; all trees are subject to Tree Preservation Orders; planting and management is subject to specific Town and Country Planning Act conditions.

The residents share the site with a number of military museums and regimental associations, together with the separately-governed Queen’s Court and Mons Court at the Romsey Road entrance, and The Hotel du Vin, Serle’s House and the Everyman cinema in Southgate Street.

The grounds are managed for the enjoyment of all residents and it is particularly important that their communal nature is respected. Permanent public access is a condition of the original planning consent and our Estate rules for visitors are set out on this website.