Former Gymnasium at St Vincent Centre
FORMER GYMNASIUM AT ST VINCENT CENTRE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234856
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gymnasium at St Vincent Centre
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GYMNASIUM AT ST VINCENT CENTRE, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234856
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gymnasium at St Vincent Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GYMNASIUM AT ST VINCENT CENTRE, MILL LANE
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.
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 GYMNASIUM AT ST VINCENT CENTRE, MILL LANE
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 60896 00751
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
GOSPORT MILL LANE SU 60 SW (east side, off) 2/150 Former gymnasium at St Vincent Centre GV II Training building at former Royal Marine Barracks. Mid-late C19, of 2 builds. Red brick in English bond, added part of red brick in Flemish bond; ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof, added part with replacement felting. One storey. Main building, gable-end on, of 3 x 4 bays, truncated at rear by added block, 1 bay deep and 4 bays wide. Gable end: chamfered plinth; pilasters near each end; corners offset at eaves. Centre bay projects slightly and has: steps up to full-width entrance with late C20 board doors, cyma-moulded stone imposts, and concreted lintel; lunette above with gauged brick arch, tripartite keystone and small-pane tripartite window. Stepped gable with moulded stone coping. Right return: alternate bays are narrower and have blind recesses with chamfered bases and stepped tops; end recesses are narrower, that on left with concrete step up to iron-hinged metal door with concrete lintel. Windows: 2 on left have segmental brick arches, raised brick keystones and paired 2-light 4-pane casements; 3rd and 4th windows wider, of 3 similar casements, with stone imposts and evidence of former shutter holders above and below; all but 4th window have metal frames. Glazed clerestory to ridge. Left return: similar, but with only 3 recesses and formerly 2 wide window openings, these partly bricked up and each now with 3 small-pane wooden windows; stone imposts; wooden shutter holder above windows and brackets from former lower shutter holder below. Rear addition: each bay of end and return elevations has a round-arched recess containing similarly-arched opening and all with stone sills, gauged brighter-red brick arches, and impost band. End elevation: on right, 4 stone steps up to former doorway, now bricked up; other recesses have windows, now boarded up and the 2nd with late C20 door up steps. Coped parapet. Hipped roof with stacks near ends of ridge. Interior: cambered board floor, with some concrete insets; kick board along side walls; round-edged sills and steel lintels to windows; diagonally-boarded roof with braced steel trusses; hinged louvres at base of clerestory. 3 doorways into addition, set approximately 1 metre above floor level and with stone sills. Small former strong room in front right corner. The building, with its cambered floor, may have been used as a gun training deck, but it is dissimilar to the known gun training deck at Plymouth.
Listing NGR: SU6117300390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410605
- 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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