Whitley Rooms (Building Number 1/138) And Bollard at North East Corner
WHITLEY ROOMS (BUILDING NUMBER 1/138) AND BOLLARD AT NORTH EAST CORNER, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272309
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Whitley Rooms (Building Number 1/138) And Bollard at North East Corner
- Statutory Address:
- WHITLEY ROOMS (BUILDING NUMBER 1/138) AND BOLLARD AT NORTH EAST CORNER, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272309
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Whitley Rooms (Building Number 1/138) And Bollard at North East Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITLEY ROOMS (BUILDING NUMBER 1/138) AND BOLLARD AT NORTH EAST CORNER, VICTORIA ROAD
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:
- WHITLEY ROOMS (BUILDING NUMBER 1/138) AND BOLLARD AT NORTH EAST CORNER, 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 63182 00841
Details
SU 6300 NW VICTORIA ROAD
(South side)
HM Naval Base
774-1/29/249 Whitley Rooms (Building No 1/138)
and bollard at NE corner
GV II
Alternatively known as: Ivy Lane Cottage, HM NAVAL BASE
Dockyard gatehouse, now office. 1857 (Property Register). Red brick in English bond with ashlar and replacement concrete dressings, and gauged red-brick arches to openings. Concealed hipped slate roof with rendered stack.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 bays x 3 on west elevation, 4 on east elevation. Plinth; round-arched openings and impost band to ground floor; flat- arched windows with replacement 12-pane sashes, and sill band on 1st floor; stepped dentilled eaves below cornice with blocking course. North elevation has blind windows, and door on left; south elevation a blocked, original, flat-arched doorway on left with blind window over; west elevation a door on left and inserted door between right-hand windows. At north-east corner is a cannon barrel of probably early-mid C19 date, reused as bollard probably mid-late C19 by setting barrel on end.
INTERIOR: 2 blocked tall round archways in spine wall; closed-string stair with stick balusters and bulbous columnar newels. HISTORY: originally there were cells along the west side. The building adjoins the dockyard wall (qv), and served as a gatehouse to Marlborough Gate until the gateway was moved to the south.
(Source: HM Naval Base Portsmouth: Property Register).
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476691
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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