Main Barrack Block and Attached Area Railings, St George's Barracks
MAIN BARRACK BLOCK AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS, MUMBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233824
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Main Barrack Block and Attached Area Railings, St George's Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN BARRACK BLOCK AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS, MUMBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233824
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Main Barrack Block and Attached Area Railings, St George's Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN BARRACK BLOCK AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS, MUMBY ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- MAIN BARRACK BLOCK AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS, MUMBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Gosport (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 61714 00080
Details
GOSPORT
SU 6100
MUMBY ROAD
(South side)
1137-0/5/91
Main barrack block & attached area railings, St George's Barracks
20.4.83
GV II
Soldier's barracks, now offices. 1856-59. Yellow stock brick with stone dressings and stucco front, lateral stacks each end and to centre of a flat roof. Single depth rooms to axial plan. EXTERIOR: Single storey and semi-basement; 70-bay range. A very long, regular front with a full-length verandah to both levels, of concrete piers beneath the ground floor landing and cast-iron columns above to a concrete flat roof, and dogleg stairs to both levels at 6-bay intervals. Rubbed brick flat arches to doorways with overlights and 6-panel doors separated by pairs of 6/6-pane sashes. The rear has sashes to both levels. INTERIOR: Plain, with later divisions; the former barrack rooms for approx 12 men retain original fittings including locations for rifle butts, and some fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached cast-iron railings with panels with diagonal bars to both levels of the verandah, and to rear. HISTORY: This is the only example in the country of a highly developed design, combining cross-lit rooms with an external verandah, thereby answering some of the criticisms levelled at older barracks by contemporary barracks reformers. The verandah was used for wet weather exercising. The barracks were a transit station for infantry built after the Crimean War. They were designed to be bomb-proof, against mortar attack, because of their location just inside the Gosport Lines. This is the only example of this type of barracks in the country, forming a complete group with the Lines earthworks, and marking Gosport's importance in the defences around the Portsmouth dockyard. (Harfield A: The Gosport Barracks, sometimes known as "New Barracks": Gosport: 1988-: 16-21; Plans of the Barracks of England: South Western District: London: 1859-: 8).
Listing NGR: SU5870301371
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409404
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harfield, A, The Gosport Barracks Sometimes Known As New Barracks, (1988), 16-21
Other
Title: Plans of the Barracks of England: South-Western District: London
Source Date: 1859
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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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