Fredericks Battery
FREDERICKS BATTERY, CIRCULAR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244588
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Fredericks Battery
- Statutory Address:
- FREDERICKS BATTERY, CIRCULAR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244588
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Fredericks Battery
- Statutory Address 1:
- FREDERICKS BATTERY, CIRCULAR ROAD
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:
- FREDERICKS BATTERY, CIRCULAR 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 63950 01272
Details
SU 60 SW CIRCULAR ROAD
(North side)
774-1/3/191 HM Naval Base
Frederick's Battery
GV II
Part of dockyard sea defence wall. Built 1843-48, under direction of Captain H James, RE; dismantled and re-erected in present position 1867 (Patterson, p28). Coursed squared stone, laid randomly, with ashlar dressings. Approx. 50 metre length of wall with end towers. Towers of 2 stages (to north) and 3 stages (to south), battered, and with round- arched openings (some blocked), and vertical and looped cruciform slits. Wall has walkway backed by parapet wall carried on 7 vaulted casemates (6 segmental-arched, 1 round-arched), the rear wall of each casemate having a blocked rectangular opening, probably coal shute hole (the casements were used as coal stores at one stage), and the central one a large entrance way. Projecting section of walling at right end has slits over 4 round-arched entrances, the 2 at centre blocked, the outer 2 with ashlar tympana carved with date 1886, and cipher.
HISTORY: the battery was located originally just to the west of the present No.15 dock (not listed, Patterson, p25). At the time of the re- erection of the battery, it extended to the Round Tower (qv) but the northern end was demolished in 1912 to make way for a rail link (Riley).
(Sources: The Buildings of England: Lloyd D: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1985: 417 ; The Portsmouth Papers: Riley RC: The Evolution of the Docks & Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth: Portsmouth: 1985: 21, 25, 26 ; A Military Heritage: Patterson BH: A History of Portsmouth & Portsea Town Fortifications: Portsmouth: 1984: 25,28).
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Patterson, B H, A History of Portsmouth and Portsea Town Fortifications, (1984), 25, 28
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 417
Riley, R C, The Portsmouth Papers in The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth, (1985), 21,25,26
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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