Fort Cumberland
FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1104273
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Fort Cumberland
- Statutory Address:
- FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1104273
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Fort Cumberland
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND 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:
- FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ6836199146
Details
SZ69NE
774-1/6/160
30/10/69
PORTSMOUTH
FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD, Eastney
Fort Cumberland
GV
II*
Fort. 1746. By the Duke of Cumberland, reconstructed 1786 by
the Duke of Richmond, some alterations and additions C19.
Stone and brick. Originally built in the form of a 5 angled
star, then reconstructed 1786 in its present form with wide
pentagonal shaped rampart with 5 sharply angled bastions at
each of the points, a dry moat and glacis and 1 ravelin.
Ramparts are faced externally in stone with brick parapets and
segmental arched gun ports behind which are deep
tunnel-vaulted brick casemates covered with several feet of
earth.
HISTORY: the fort is a direct descendant of the bastioned
fortress pioneered in Italy in late C15 and the last fortress
to be built here marking the final development of this type of
design in Britain. It is perhaps the best piece of C18
defensive architecture left in Britain.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 22; Lloyd DW: Buildings
of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 62; The
Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 428).
Listing NGR: SZ6836199146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474589
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 62
Balfour, A, Portsmouth, (1970), 22
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 428
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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