Expense Magazine With Associated Traverse Walls For Shell Filling Rooms
EXPENSE MAGAZINE WITH ASSOCIATED TRAVERSE WALLS FOR SHELL FILLING ROOMS, PRIDDY'S HARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276025
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Expense Magazine With Associated Traverse Walls For Shell Filling Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- EXPENSE MAGAZINE WITH ASSOCIATED TRAVERSE WALLS FOR SHELL FILLING ROOMS, PRIDDY'S HARD
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- Date:
- 2006-04-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/15487/15
- Rights:
- © Mrs Jennifer Graham. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276025
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Apr-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Expense Magazine With Associated Traverse Walls For Shell Filling Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- EXPENSE MAGAZINE WITH ASSOCIATED TRAVERSE WALLS FOR SHELL FILLING ROOMS, PRIDDY'S HARD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- EXPENSE MAGAZINE WITH ASSOCIATED TRAVERSE WALLS FOR SHELL FILLING ROOMS, PRIDDY'S HARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Gosport (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 61453 01009
Details
1137/2/140 PRIDDY'S HARD 19-JAN-90 Expense Magazine with associated trave rse walls for Shell Filling Rooms (Formerly listed as: PRIDDY'S HARD READY USE MAGAZINE AND ENCLOSING TRAVE RSE RETAINING WALLS)
GV II Expense magazine, for holding small quantities of powder for use in the shell filling rooms. 1886. Brick in English bond; traverse walls in English garden wall bond.
A small gabled structure, with pair of plank doors to segmental brick head beneath a vent; returns have eaves bands, and the rear a further vent. Drawings (Evans, p.82) show that there is a barrel vault to the building, beneath the outer roofing. Enclosing battered traversed walls are faced with brick to a rubble or concrete core, the tops chamfered; the walls slope down either side of the building, and the traverse front is bowed, its return walls sloping down. Vaulted interior.
HISTORICAL NOTE: A unique surviving example of an ordnance depot expense magazine, with surrounding brick traverse walls, for holding small quantities of powder for use in the nearby Shell Filling Rooms. It forms a functionally integral part of this uniquely important shell-filling complex, relating to the shell filling rooms built outside the eighteenth century defences (qv). The surrounding earthworks are included within the Scheduled Ancient Monument constraint area. The magazines and related structures at Priddy's Hard date from the late 18th century. The site's expansion from the mid 19th century was closely related to the development of land and sea artillery and the navy's transition from the age of sail, powder and solid shot to the Dreadnought class of the early 1900s. Priddy's Hard retains the best-preserved range of structures that relate to this remarkable history of continual enlargement and adaptation, one that encompasses that of Britain's dominance as a sea power on a global scale. For further historical details on this site, see the description for 'A' Magazine.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410594
- 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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