Commandants House
COMMANDANTS HOUSE, FORTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276669
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Commandants House
- Statutory Address:
- COMMANDANTS HOUSE, FORTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276669
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Commandants House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMMANDANTS HOUSE, FORTON 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:
- COMMANDANTS HOUSE, FORTON ROAD
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 61100 00370
Details
GOSPORT
SU 6100
FORTON ROAD
(North side)
1137-0/5/45
Commandant's House
25.2.71
GV II
Barracks commandant's house, now nursing home. c1847, by Captain James, RE. Red brick with limestone dressings and rubbed brick headers, ashlar corner lateral stacks, hipped slate and pyramidal lead roof Late Georgian style. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Symmetrical entrance front with plat band and eaves cornice, an ashlar porch with clasping pilasters and cornice, round-arched doorway with radial fanlight, margin lights and half-glazed doors, with rubbed brick heads to tripartite ground-floor windows with 6/6-pane sashes, and 6/6-pane first-floor sashes. Left-hand return and rear have triple ashlar corner stacks with arched openings between. Right-hand front corner has a rendered extra storey forming an observation tower, with leaded pyramidal roof and single 6/6-pane sash to each face. Right-hand return has a projecting pedimented central bay with first-floor Ventian window and oculus in the pediment. INTERIOR: Contains stairs and original joinery including panelled doors, and cornicing. HISTORY: Built as part of Gosport Royal Marines barracks, later HMS St Vincent, the Commandant's House retains features, particularly in the use of an observation tower on the roof, specific to its use in running the barracks. Forms part of a group with James' entrance range (qv) to the W. (SAVE Britain's Heritage: Deserted Bastions, Historic Naval and Military Architecture: London: 1993-: 181; Professional papers of the Royal Marines: Captain H James RE: Additions at Forton to accommodate the Portsmouth Division: Chatham: 1851-: 101-113).
Listing NGR: SU6108300370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
SAVE Britains Heritage, , Deserted Bastions, (1993)
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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