C MAGAZINE (BUILDING 435)

C MAGAZINE (BUILDING 435), PRIDDY'S HARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1234618
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: C MAGAZINE (BUILDING 435)
Statutory Address:: C MAGAZINE (BUILDING 435), PRIDDY'S HARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1234618
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: C MAGAZINE (BUILDING 435)
Statutory Address 1:: C MAGAZINE (BUILDING 435), PRIDDY'S HARD

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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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:: C MAGAZINE (BUILDING 435), PRIDDY'S HARD

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 61612 01299

Details

SU60SW 1137-0/2/10015

GOSPORT, PRIDDY'S HARD, C Magazine, (Building 435)

(Formerly listed as Gunpowder Magazine [Building No.435] at R.N.A.D.)

09-MARCH-1995

GV II*

Magazine. 1860/1. Brick, in English bond, with flat roof, with earth traverse along the S seaward side. Rectangular plan. The traverse extends to the E, being made against a sloping brick wall that is returned on the other side as the E elevation of the magazine, in the angle being a flat-roofed porch with plat band and gauged brick flat arch over C20 plank doors. Pierced wrought iron ventilation grille to bottom right, there being a row of similar grilles along the lower half of the N elevation; the latter having gauged brick flat arches over four shuttered ventilation openings. Vaulted interior, the area above the arches being infilled with earth..

HISTORICAL NOTE: An earth-traversed and casemated structure of 1860/1, originally intended to receive ammunition from ships coming in to refit or be paid off. It is a very impressive example of this type of structure, being carefully detailed in gauged brick and with pierced iron ventilation panels. It was built at a critical moment in naval history, as the Royal Navy met the challenge posed by the French through the development of ironclad, steam-powered and shell-firing ships. It was also built at the same time as the Palmerston administration had commissioned the construction of new forts around the naval dockyards, the traversing of the seaward elevation being a defence against enemy fire as much as serving the protect the rest of the site from accidental explosion. It is also of particular importance because of the role it played in the first (and best preserved) integrated shell filling facility established within an Ordnance Yard. It comprised the northern terminus of the site's first tramway system, and supplied the Laboratory magazine and associated shell-filling rooms (demolished). It had become an Expense Magazine for gunpowder and cordite by the 1890s.

The magazines and related structures at Priddy's Hard date from the late 18th century. The site's expansion from the mid 19th century was closely related to the development of land and sea artillery and the navy's transition from the age of sail, powder and solid shot to the Dreadnought class of the early 1900s. Priddy's Hard retains the best-preserved range of structures that relate to this remarkable history of continual enlargement and adaptation, one that encompasses that of Britain's dominance as a sea power on a global scale. For further historical details on this site, see the description for 'A' Magazine.

Listing NGR: SU5870301371

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

Legacy System number:: 410593
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.