Brass Foundry (Building Number 1/142 East End (psto (N) 34 Store)
BRASS FOUNDRY (BUILDING NUMBER 1/142 EAST END (PSTO (N) 34 STORE), VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272308
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brass Foundry (Building Number 1/142 East End (psto (N) 34 Store)
- Statutory Address:
- BRASS FOUNDRY (BUILDING NUMBER 1/142 EAST END (PSTO (N) 34 STORE), VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272308
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brass Foundry (Building Number 1/142 East End (psto (N) 34 Store)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRASS FOUNDRY (BUILDING NUMBER 1/142 EAST END (PSTO (N) 34 STORE), VICTORIA ROAD
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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.
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:
- BRASS FOUNDRY (BUILDING NUMBER 1/142 EAST END (PSTO (N) 34 STORE), VICTORIA 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 63044 00835
Details
SU 6300 NW VICTORIA ROAD
(South side)
HM Naval Base
774-1/29/246 Brass Foundry (Building No 1/142,
east end (PSTO (n) 34 Store)
GV II
Iron and brass foundry, now workshop. 1848, by Cpt H James, RE; traveller road roofed 1888. Red brick in English bond with granite plinth and Portland ashlar dressings; corrugated iron hipped valley roof with ridge vents. Square plan, W traveller. EXTERIOR: single storey; 7 parallel hipped-roofed ranges giving elevations of 7 x 7 bays, with bay added in same style at west end. Plinth. Round-arched arcades framing large small-pane cast-iron windows, most replaced mid C20, N and 2 ends with doorways 1 bay from the ends with fanlights and metal doors, keystones and projecting blocking courses; impost band, eaves cornice and blocking course, raised over the doorways.
INTERIOR has a wrought-iron roof with angle struts and vertical round- section ties. W former traveller road contains cast-iron traveller supports inscribed "JA BALDY IRON FOUNDER/LNDPORT/1864".
HISTORY: used temporarily for iron-founding before the construction of the adjacent iron foundry ( qv) from 1857. Originally with brass furnaces along the centre partition wall, drawn by 4 central chimneys on iron frames, and 2 iron cupola furnaces and casting pits in the foundry section. The building was, with James' No.2 Ship Shop and Greene's Iron Foundry (qqv), an integral element in the dockyard expansion of the 1840s which enabled the yard to deal with the new steam-powered ships which the navy was beginning to employ.
(Sources: The Portsmouth Papers: Riley RC: The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth: Portsmouth: 1985: 16 ; Evans D: The Buildings of the Steam Navy: 1994: 9-11, 17 ; Professional Papers of the Royal Engineers, Series 3: James H: Description of the Steam Basin, Factory and other Works: 1853: 92).
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476690
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Evans, D, The Buildings of the Steam Navy, (1994), 9-11, 17
James, H, Professional Papers of the Royal Engineers; Series 3 in Description of the Steam Basin Docks and Factory, (1953), 92
Riley, R C, The Portsmouth Papers in The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth, (1985), 16
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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