Former Barracks to Rear of Portsmouth Grammar School
FORMER BARRACKS TO REAR OF PORTSMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104363
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Barracks to Rear of Portsmouth Grammar School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BARRACKS TO REAR OF PORTSMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104363
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Barracks to Rear of Portsmouth Grammar School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BARRACKS TO REAR OF PORTSMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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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.
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 BARRACKS TO REAR OF PORTSMOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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 63573 99491
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6399 HIGH STREET 774-1/12/484 (South East side) 08/07/98 Former barracks to rear of Portsmouth Grammar School
GV II
Formerly known as: Cambridge Barracks HIGH STREET. Soldiers barracks, now part of school. c1856-58. Red brick with paler brick dressings, ridge stacks and slate hipped roof. Late Georgian style. PLAN: 4 pairs of back-to-back soldiers rooms separated by through passages with stairs, cook house at S end and central office section with through arch. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 23-window range. Long plain range with regular rubbed-brick flat arches to 6/6 pane sashes. Central round-arched entrance to vaulted through arch, and doorways in between pairs of former barrack rooms; similar fenestration to rear, SW, elevation, with projecting bays to the through passages opposite the entrances. INTERIOR: fire-proof cook house at the S end has a stair bay against the gable containing a cast-iron stair in curved wall brackets, the lower rooms have heavy cornices and cast-iron T-shaped cross beams. HISTORY: first shown on 1861 OS map, and probably built at the same time as the officer's quarters opposite, 1856-8 for regiments passing through Portsmouth. Of interest for the internal fireproof kitchen, and as part of the former Cambridge barracks with the officer's quarters, now Portsmouth Grammar School, and outbuildings attached to the S (qv). This is part of the only complete barracks that survives in an area just inside the old Portsmouth Lines, which in the C19 contained a large amount of barrack accommodation.
Listing NGR: SZ6353399541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474791
- 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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