Former Officers Quarters, Fort Cumberland
FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104276
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Officers Quarters, Fort Cumberland
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104276
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Officers Quarters, Fort Cumberland
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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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:
- FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, 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 68339 99235
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ69NE FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD, Eastney 774-1/6/163 Former Officers' Quarters, Fort Cumberland
GV II
Officers' quarters with separate north and south blocks, now offices. c1865. Red brick in Flemish bond. Low pitch Welsh slate roofs, hipped to 1-storey extension at right of south block and to 2-storey extension at left of north block. South block has brick stack on left and to right of centre and north block on right and to left of centre. EXTERIOR: each block 2 storeys and attic, 8 bays. South block has to bay 3 and on far right a half-glazed door with 3-pane overlight set under gauged brick segmental arch. To left of right door are 4 and on left of left door are two 12-pane sashes, each set under a gauged brick segmental arch, stone sill. First floor has 8 similar 12-pane sashes, banded stone cornice and rendered parapet. The attic is recessed behind parapet and has four 6-pane 2-leaf casements set within slate hanging. North block is similar except doors are positioned in far left bay and to right in bay 6. On right of south block is a 1-storey red brick extension with 2 similar 12-pane sashes. Left of north block is a 2-storey extension with 2 ground and first floor 12-pane sashes. Rear elevation is similar but each block has 2 later 2-storey projections each with lean-to slated roof, north block brick, south block stuccoed. 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:
- 474592
- 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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