8, FRENCH STREET
8, FRENCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333242
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 8, FRENCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, FRENCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333242
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 8, FRENCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, FRENCH STREET
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:
- 8, FRENCH STREET
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 63181 99429
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6399 FRENCH STREET 774-1/12/483 No.8 16/12/93
II
Also known as: Popinjays Warehouse FRENCH STREET. Also known as: The Mayors Stables FRENCH STREET. Warehouse. Original fabric on ground floor possible late medieval but certainly in existence by late C16 or early C17, upper floors C18 with some patching of c1800. Ground floor north and south elevations of limestone blocks, above red brick in a mixture of English garden wall bond and Flemish bond. Plain tiled roof with half hip to west. 2 storeys. West front has 2 cambered window openings and central hoist with cambered opening. Cambered door to ground floor. INTERIOR has 4-bay queen post roof with inserted ridgepiece and diagonal tension braces. (Post-Medieval Archaeology : Vol 20 : 1986: Fox R & Barton KJ: Excavations at Oyster Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire: 34, 61, 63, 78, F11).
Listing NGR: SZ6318799430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474623
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fox, R, Barton, K J, Post-Medieval Archaeology in Excavations at Oyster Street Portsmouth Hampshire, (1986), 78,F11
Fox, R, Barton, K J, Post-Medieval Archaeology in Excavations at Oyster Street Portsmouth Hampshire, (1986), 34,61,63
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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