Former Hospital and Ancilliary Buildings, Fort Cumberland

FORMER HOSPITAL AND ANCILLIARY BUILDINGS, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104275
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:
Former Hospital and Ancilliary Buildings, Fort Cumberland
Statutory Address:
FORMER HOSPITAL AND ANCILLIARY BUILDINGS, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104275
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:
Former Hospital and Ancilliary Buildings, Fort Cumberland
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER HOSPITAL AND ANCILLIARY BUILDINGS, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER HOSPITAL AND ANCILLIARY BUILDINGS, 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:
SZ 68305 99257

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SZ69NE FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD, Eastney 774-1/6/162 Former Hospital and ancillary buildings, Fort Cumberland

GV II

Former hospital and ancillary buildings, now unoccupied. c1746, C19 and early C20 extensions. Red brick in Flemish and Stretcher bond, timber boarding. Tripartite plain tiled roof to centre part, north wing has composition sheet flat roof, re-roofing in progress to south wing. Brick stacks, 3 in line to left of centre part and 1 at centre of south wing. EXTERIOR: 1 storey. At middle of centre part is a bricked up former entrance with late C20 projecting stack at front. On each side is a 12-pane sash with round-headed timber panel set under gauged brick round arch, stone sill, rendered band and 3 rendered facing coped gables, round-headed recess at centre of each gable. Left wing has a 12-pane sash set under cambered brick arch, stone coped parapet. On far right the later boarded wing with facing gable has on left a 2-leaf boarded door and on right two 12-pane sashes each set under flat timber arch, 2 S-shape iron ties at centre of gable. Rear elevation has a flat roofed wing attached to the rear of the taller centre part which has 3 facing gables similar to front, but in brickwork. To left is an early C20 extension attached to the timber boarded wing with two 24-pane metal casements and on right boarded door, each set under flat concrete lintel. On right are two 8-pane casements and further right 4 boarded doors each set under brick cambered arch. INTERIOR not inspected. (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: SZ6658898977

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
474591
Legacy System:
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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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