The Cochrane Building at Osborne House
THE COCHRANE BUILDING AT OSBORNE HOUSE, WHIPPINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096049
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Cochrane Building at Osborne House
- Statutory Address:
- THE COCHRANE BUILDING AT OSBORNE HOUSE, WHIPPINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096049
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Cochrane Building at Osborne House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COCHRANE BUILDING AT OSBORNE HOUSE, WHIPPINGHAM ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE COCHRANE BUILDING AT OSBORNE HOUSE, WHIPPINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Cowes
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 51293 94638
Details
EAST COWES
SZ59SW WHIPPINGHAM ROAD
947/7/10018 Osborne estate
24-MAR-03 The Cochrane Building at Osborne House
GV II
Former lecture rooms at Royal Naval College, Osborne. !905 by Henry Nicholas Hawks of the Office of Works. Pebbledash brick with brick buttresses, applied timber-framing to the gables. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends and overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends.
PLAN: Rectangular on plan with a linking wing to the main building [former stables].
Domestic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: Single storey. Asymmetrical elevations with projecting gable ends with bargeboards, applied timber-framing and battered brick buttresses. Similar, but smaller, gables over large multi-pane sash windows [boarded over] which break through the eaves. Doorways with canopies on curved braces. Over the ridge are two polygonal cupolas with small columns supporting lead-clad domes with finials.
INTERIOR: Series of lecture rooms with exposed roof truss braces and linking corridors.
NOTE: This building was built in 1905 as lecture rooms of the Royal Naval Hospital, which was established in 1903-4 in the converted 1859-60 stables at Osborne House. The Naval College was closed in 1921.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490014
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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