Number 17 Store (Building Number 1/64) And Bollards at North West and South West Corners

NUMBER 17 STORE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/64) AND BOLLARDS AT NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST CORNERS, ANCHOR LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1272265
Date first listed:
13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Number 17 Store (Building Number 1/64) And Bollards at North West and South West Corners
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 17 STORE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/64) AND BOLLARDS AT NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST CORNERS, ANCHOR LANE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1272265
Date first listed:
13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Number 17 Store (Building Number 1/64) And Bollards at North West and South West Corners
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 17 STORE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/64) AND BOLLARDS AT NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST CORNERS, ANCHOR LANE

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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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 17 STORE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/64) AND BOLLARDS AT NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST CORNERS, 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 63101 00546

Details

SU 6300 NW ANCHOR LANE
(South side)
774-1/29/188 HM Naval base
No 17 Store (Building No 1/64)
and bollards at NW and SW corners

GV II*


Hemp store, now store. Dated 1781, much altered mid-late C20. Red brick in English bond with blue headers to 2nd floor and forming band above ground floor. C20 flat-topped mansard roof of plain tiles with rooflight replaces former double-pitched roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 14 bays. Ashlar plinth on south side. Buttresses to ground floor, each with
brick table and stepped offset head. Windows have segmental brick arches, replacement soldier-brick arches on 2nd floor, projecting sills, C20 metal windows. Large, inserted, C20 loading doors with folding metal doors. Boxed eaves. On north side, board door at right end; bays 8 and 10 blind. At east end, single-storey 1-bay addition; above it, gable of main range has date picked out in blue headers. INTERIOR: replacement rivetted steel roof trusses. Replacement internal structure.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at north-west and south-west corners are bollards formed of upended cannon barrels, probably early-mid C19 reused as bollards mid-late C19; muzzles blocked, that of south-western bollard by a cannon ball.
HISTORY: originally called the East Hemp House, and built as part of the rebuilding of the ropery after the fire of 1770. It is similar in design to the adjacent Nos 16 and 15 Stores (qqv). Though much altered compared with the roperies at Chatham and Devonport, this is still one of the
largest integrated groups of C18 industrial buildings in the country. (Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of HM Naval Base Portsmouth 1700-1850: Portsmouth: 1981: 19, plate 15; The Buildings of England: Lloyd D:
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1985: 413 ; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 204-206).


Listing NGR: SU6299200361

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Legacy System number:
476635
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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
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 413

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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