The Royal Railway Shelter (Building Number 1/45)
THE ROYAL RAILWAY SHELTER (BUILDING NUMBER 1/45), SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272292
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Railway Shelter (Building Number 1/45)
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL RAILWAY SHELTER (BUILDING NUMBER 1/45), SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272292
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Railway Shelter (Building Number 1/45)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROYAL RAILWAY SHELTER (BUILDING NUMBER 1/45), SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
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:
- THE ROYAL RAILWAY SHELTER (BUILDING NUMBER 1/45), SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
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:
- SU6275800488
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/11/2017
SU 6200 SE
774-1/18/236
HM NAVAL BASE
SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
The Royal Railway Shelter (Building No 1/45)
GV
II
Railway shelter. 1888. Cast-iron frame; roof of asphalt on wooden lining. Single-storey open-sided structure of 1 x 7 bays. Pillars of cross section, support trussed iron arches spanning double track, and having flat-topped longitudinal braces with twisted iron struts springing from these. Three round-arched louvred dormers with wooden archivolts on each side of roof. Gable finials in form of crowned fouled anchor. On east side, facing quayside, eaves are gableted with curved bargeboards and glass roofs.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY: built for the use of the Royal Family visiting the yard, and part of a group with the Royal Station (qv).
The shelter was moved to its present location in about 2002.
Listing NGR: SU6275800488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Evans, D, The Buildings of the Steam Navy, (1994), 30
Riley, R C, The Portsmouth Papers in The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth, (1985), 25
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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