GUARD HOUSE AT ENTRANCE TO NORTH SECTION, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS

GUARD HOUSE AT ENTRANCE TO NORTH SECTION, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS, MUMBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233872
Date first listed:: 20-Apr-1981
List Entry Name:: GUARD HOUSE AT ENTRANCE TO NORTH SECTION, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: GUARD HOUSE AT ENTRANCE TO NORTH SECTION, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS, MUMBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233872
Date first listed:: 20-Apr-1981
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: GUARD HOUSE AT ENTRANCE TO NORTH SECTION, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: GUARD HOUSE AT ENTRANCE TO NORTH SECTION, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS, MUMBY ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: GUARD HOUSE AT ENTRANCE TO NORTH SECTION, ST GEORGE'S BARRACKS, MUMBY ROAD

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County:: Hampshire
District:: Gosport (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 61650 00228

Details

GOSPORT SU 6100 MUMBY ROAD (West side) 1137-0/5/81 Guard house at entrance to north section, St George's Barracks 20.4.81

GV II

Guard house, disused. 1856-59. Yellow stock brick, painted to front, stone dressings and a flat roof Single-depth plan with rear cells. EXTERIOR: Single storey; 5-arch range. Symmetrical front with an impost band to an arcade of5 open round arches, cornice and parapet; an open area inside the arcade has 3 flat-headed 6/6-pane sashes, and a right-hand doorway, the returns have small front lights with arched heads. An ashlar clock tower has rusticated quoins to a cornice with louvered vents, clock faces originally to 4 sides within round arches and clasping pilasters, to a cornice and pyramidal leaded roof and iron weather vane. INTERIOR: Contains a fire-proof frame of jack arches, with small cells and rooms for the guard. HISTORY: Overlooked the main entrances to the 2 sections of the barracks; clock towers were a common feature of mid C19 barracks. The barracks functioned as 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

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Legacy System number:: 409394
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Harfield, A, The Gosport Barracks Sometimes Known As New Barracks, (1988)
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Title: Plans of the Barracks of England: South-Western District: London Source Date: 1859 Author: Publisher: Surveyor:

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.