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BOILER SHOP WEST (BUILDING NUMBER 1/84) AND BOLLARDS TO NORTH WEST AND NORTH EAST CORNERS

BOILER SHOP WEST (BUILDING NUMBER 1/84) AND BOLLARDS TO NORTH WEST AND NORTH EAST CORNERS, SCOTT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272313
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: BOILER SHOP WEST (BUILDING NUMBER 1/84) AND BOLLARDS TO NORTH WEST AND NORTH EAST CORNERS
Statutory Address:: BOILER SHOP WEST (BUILDING NUMBER 1/84) AND BOLLARDS TO NORTH WEST AND NORTH EAST CORNERS, SCOTT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272313
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: BOILER SHOP WEST (BUILDING NUMBER 1/84) AND BOLLARDS TO NORTH WEST AND NORTH EAST CORNERS
Statutory Address 1:: BOILER SHOP WEST (BUILDING NUMBER 1/84) AND BOLLARDS TO NORTH WEST AND NORTH EAST CORNERS, SCOTT ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BOILER SHOP WEST (BUILDING NUMBER 1/84) AND BOLLARDS TO NORTH WEST AND NORTH EAST CORNERS, SCOTT 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 62933 00551

Details

SU 6200 NE SCOTT ROAD (South side) HM Naval Base 774-1/17/230 Boiler Shop West (Building No. 1/84) and Bollards to NW and NE corners

GV II

Alternatively known as: Tarring house, Ropery, SCOTT ROAD HM NAVAL BASE Hemp tarring house, now offices and store. 1747, considerably altered subsequently, particularly C20. Red brick with some blue headers in English bond. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, part with attic. 15 bays, the western section the earliest part. c1900 addition of 2 storeys, 3 x 4 bays at east end. Brick plinth; 1st floor concrete impost band; stepped eaves; western section has brick plat band and ashlar cornice. C20 small-pane metal windows with bright red gauged brick flat arches and stone sills. Wide segmental- arched entrances with later board doors. South side: bays arranged 5:10. One inserted 1st-floor loading door, and one former loading door now a window. On right of right-hand door, at low level, is recessed stone plaque with incised seriffed lettering, "under this stone theres a Water R(?)eerr". Addition at east end has central segmental-arched door, 3 stepped round-arched windows above, and shaped pedimented gable with 3 small louvred openings. North side similar. West end: 3 bays, central bay projecting and with pedimented attic, oculus in pediment. At north-west and north-east corners are cannon bollards comprising disused cannon barrels (C17 or C18) set on end for use as bollards (probably mid-late C19), the muzzles blocked, that at north-east corner by a cannon ball. INTERIOR: the western section on ground floor has chamfered timber posts with rivetted metal brackets, and in former eastern end wall a round archway. HISTORY: the earliest part of the ropery, converted from manual to horse power c1774; hemp was passed from the laying house for tarring before being returned to the spinning house. Although much altered, this is the oldest naval ropeyard building, and part of one of the largest integrated groups of C18 industrial buildings in the country. This is the only part of the mid C 18 ropery at Portsmouth to survive both the 1760 and 1770 fires. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 203-206 ; The Portsmouth Papers: Riley RC: The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth: Portsmouth: 1985: 10-11).

Listing NGR: SU6299200361

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 476695
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 203-206
Riley, R C, 'The Portsmouth Papers' in The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth, (1985), 10-11

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.