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PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES

PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES, GUNWHARF ROAD, HMS VERNON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333204
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES
Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES, GUNWHARF ROAD, HMS VERNON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333204
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES
Statutory Address 1:: PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES, GUNWHARF ROAD, HMS VERNON
Statutory Address 2:: PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES, ST GEORGES ROAD, HMS VERNON

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:: PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES, GUNWHARF ROAD, HMS VERNON
Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALLS WITH GATEWAYS INCLUDING FORMER MAIN GATE AND LODGES, ST GEORGES ROAD, HMS VERNON

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:: SZ 63304 99964

Details

SZ 6399 774-1/12/29

PORTSMOUTH, GUNWHARF ROAD (West side), HMS Vernon Perimeter Walls with Gateways including former Main Gate and Lodges

25.9.72

GV II

Alternatively known as: Isle of Wight Ferry Car Park wall, GUNWHARF ROAD HMS VERNON

Includes: Perimeter walls with Gateways including former Main Gate and Lodges, ST GEORGES ROAD HMS VERNON.

Perimeter walls with former main gate, lodges, subsidiary gates and gun emplacements. c1870 with later additions and alterations. Red and yellow brick and limestone ashlar. Wall runs along west side of Gunwharf Road and St George's Road with mid-late C20 gateway near their junction and mid-late C20 breaks at Isle of Wight ferry vehicle entrance and exit. Former main gate at junction of road with Park Road. Wall is approx. .3 metres high and has chamfered ashlar plinth; yellow brick panels with black-brick bases, stepped dentilled heads, red and blue header-brick lozenge motifs, and red brick surrounds; roll-moulding below triangular-sectioned rendered brick coping. Ashlar sections at fine corner ashlar rifle bartizans with dentilled cornices, the wall sweeping up either side. Square brick end piers with rendered pyramidal capstones. Former main gateway: segmental archway with stone surround, machicolated parapet, decorative iron gates with delicately scrolled superstructure, and on west side bollards formed of early-mid C19 cannon barrels set on end. Flanking square brick towers with ashlar plinths, bands, coping, and architraves to pedestrian entrances on east side; south tower with blocking course; north tower larger and taller with machicolated embattled parapet, decorative weather-vane dated 1923, and entrance on to walkway above south side of entrance; flanking square piers with decorative brick panels. On west side, 2 single-storey lodges, north lodge with heavy square-columned porch and hipped plain tile roof; south lodge with 4-bay iron columned loggia and hipped Welsh slate roof. 2 subsidiary gateways (south of present main entrance) each with ashlar piers and, in wall to side, a bricked up round-arched pedestrian entrance. HISTORY: provided security around the former Ordnance yard. Included as an imposing perimeter to the historic Gunwharf site, with the unique C17 style bartizan watch posts.

Listing NGR: SU6610802158

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Legacy System number:: 474720
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.