Number 16 Store (Building Number 1/63) And Bollard at South West Corner
NUMBER 16 STORE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/63) AND BOLLARD AT SOUTH WEST CORNER, ANCHOR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1272263
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 16 Store (Building Number 1/63) And Bollard at South West Corner
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 16 STORE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/63) AND BOLLARD AT SOUTH WEST CORNER, ANCHOR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1272263
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Number 16 Store (Building Number 1/63) And Bollard at South West Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 16 STORE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/63) AND BOLLARD AT SOUTH WEST CORNER, ANCHOR LANE
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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:
- NUMBER 16 STORE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/63) AND BOLLARD AT SOUTH WEST CORNER, ANCHOR LANE
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 63038 00525
Details
SU 6300 NW ANCHOR LANE
(South side)
HM Naval Base
774-1/29/187 No 16 Store (Building No. 1/63)
and bollard at SW corner
GV II*
Alternatively known as: West Hemp House, ANCHOR LANE HM NAVAL BASE
Hemp store, and bollard, now store. Store dated "GR 1111771 "; much altered mid-late C20. Red brick with some blue headers in English bond. C20 flat-topped mansard roof of plain tiles with rooflight replaces former double-pitched roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. 18 bays. Ashlar plinth on south side. Buttresses to ground floor each with brick table and stepped offset head, a cannon-barrel bollard sunk against the north- western most buttress. Windows have segmental brick arches, replacement soldier-brick arches on 2nd floor, replacement concrete sills, and C20 metal windows. Large, inserted, C20 loading doors with folding metal doors. 2 pedestrian doors on north side. East gable has blue headers picking out royal initials, date, flag and crown.
INTERIOR: replacement rivet ted steel roof trusses; mid-late C20 steel- framed internal structure. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at south-west corner a bollard formed of an upended cannon barrel, probably early-mid C19 reused as bollard mid-late C19, with muzzle blocked.
HISTORY: originally called the West Hemp House, constructed as part of the rebuilding of the ropery after the fire of 1770. It is similar in design to the adjacent Nos 15 and 17 Stores (qqv). Though much altered, compared with the roperies at either Chatham or Devonport, this is still part of one of the largest integrated groups of C18 industrial buildings in the country, and part of a group with the other late C18 ropery buildings (qqv).
(Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of HM Naval Base Portsmouth 1700- 1850: Portsmouth: 1981: 19, plate 15; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690- 1850: Aldershot: 1989: 204-206).
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476633
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 204-206
Coad, J, Historic Architecture of H M Naval Base Portsmouth 1700-1850, (1981), 19
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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