Building Number 1/121 Former Commissioners Stables
BUILDING NUMBER 1/121 FORMER COMMISSIONERS STABLES, SHORT ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244550
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Building Number 1/121 Former Commissioners Stables
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING NUMBER 1/121 FORMER COMMISSIONERS STABLES, SHORT ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244550
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Building Number 1/121 Former Commissioners Stables
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING NUMBER 1/121 FORMER COMMISSIONERS STABLES, SHORT ROW
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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:
- BUILDING NUMBER 1/121 FORMER COMMISSIONERS STABLES, SHORT ROW
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:
- SU 63187 00687
Details
SU 6300 NW SHORT ROW
(North side)
HM Naval Base
774-1/29/180 Building No 1/121, former
Commissioner's stables
GV II
Dockyard commissioner's stables; now photographic laboratory and garage. 1740 (Property Register); C19 and C20 alterations. Painted brick. Plain tile roof, hipped at left end with a single mid-late C20 brick chimney in front roof slope.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Canted 4 + 3 bays with straight joint between. Right-hand section has close-spaced 1st-floor windows. On ground floor 2 double board garage doors with small-paned overlights. On 1st floor, short unequally-hung 12-pane sashes with exposed boxes in reveals, set
below moulded wooden eaves band. Left-hand section has 2 early-C20 doorways in part-glazed pent porches each with a segmental-arched 12-pane sash to its right and at centre of this section a former segmental-arched entrance, now window. On 1st floor, three 12- pane sashes and, on right, a short unequally-hung 12-pane sash; moulded wooden eaves band. INTERIOR: central section retains some C18 panelling on each floor, including some in entrance hall; door of 6 raised and fielded panels to stair which rises along rear wall; board-lined rooms.
HISTORY: closely associated with the 1787 Commissioner's House (qv), and a notable early example comparable with the officers' stables at Chatham (qv).
(Source: HM Naval Base Portsmouth -Property Register: 1992: 6; Plans of His Majesty's Dockyard at Portsmouth: 1774).
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476702
- 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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