Former Railway Station and Waiting Room (Building Number 1/47)
FORMER RAILWAY STATION AND WAITING ROOM (BUILDING NUMBER 1/47), SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272293
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Railway Station and Waiting Room (Building Number 1/47)
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER RAILWAY STATION AND WAITING ROOM (BUILDING NUMBER 1/47), SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272293
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Railway Station and Waiting Room (Building Number 1/47)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER RAILWAY STATION AND WAITING ROOM (BUILDING NUMBER 1/47), 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:
- FORMER RAILWAY STATION AND WAITING ROOM (BUILDING NUMBER 1/47), 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:
- SU6273000459
Details
SU 6200 SE
774-1/18/234
HM Naval Base
SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
Former railway station and waiting room (Building No 1/47)
GV
II
Railway station and waiting room, now offices. 1888, altered C20. Red brick in stretcher bond; cast-iron columns supporting wooden canopy; later infill of vertical wooden boards. Replacement roof of corrugated iron. Brick end stacks.
EXTERIOR: long single-storey range having canopy at front supported by arcade with decorative arched braces and scalloped, vertically boarded eaves; canopy partially underbuilt C20. Central entrance. Sash windows of 12 and 16 panes. Chimneys panelled and with decorative terracotta to arched openings and corbelled cornices. Returns: gables treated as pediments and with stepped dentilled bands.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY: built as shelter for the Royal Family and its party when visiting the yard. Part of a group with the Royal Shelter (qv).
Listing NGR: SU6273000459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476680
- 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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