FORMER DETENTION CENTRE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/2)

FORMER DETENTION CENTRE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/2), MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244585
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: FORMER DETENTION CENTRE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/2)
Statutory Address:: FORMER DETENTION CENTRE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/2), MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244585
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: FORMER DETENTION CENTRE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/2)
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER DETENTION CENTRE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/2), MAIN ROAD

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:: FORMER DETENTION CENTRE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/2), MAIN ROAD

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 62992 00293

Details

SU 6200 SE MAIN ROAD (West side) HM Naval Base 774-1/18/209 Former Detention Centre (Building No.1/2)

GV II

Former detention centre. 1882-3. Red brick in English bond; concealed roof. Long narrow range of 2 storeys, 9 bays. Segmental-arched openings, on 1st floor with small-pane metal windows and stone sills. Stepped eaves band below cyma-moulded ashlar cornice. Ends of iron tie-rods. On the south- east side the building's ground floor is formed of the 1704-11 dockyard wall (qv) which has a segmental-arched entrance leading into the right end of the detention centre; and on 1st floor has pilaster rising on left of 2-light bays. On the north-west side the ground floor is masked by the HMS Warrior display tent. South west end has 3 windows on each floor. INTERIOR: passage along north-west side, with entrances to 6 cells which are brick vaulted and have thick doors with spy-holes. Iron urinals survive on 1st floor at south-west end. Part of the security -within the late C 19 yard, and forming the formal entrance with the Victory Gate (qv). (Sources: HM Naval Base Portsmouth -Property Register: 1992; Evans D: The Buildings of the Steam Navy: 1994: 30).

Listing NGR: SU6299200361

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 476668
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Evans, D, The Buildings of the Steam Navy, (1994), 30

Legal

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