Former Gunwharf Gateway and Walls of Approximately 3 Metres to North 38 Metres to South
FORMER GUNWHARF GATEWAY AND WALLS OF APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO NORTH 38 METRES TO SOUTH, GUNWHARF ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378580
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gunwharf Gateway and Walls of Approximately 3 Metres to North 38 Metres to South
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GUNWHARF GATEWAY AND WALLS OF APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO NORTH 38 METRES TO SOUTH, GUNWHARF ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378580
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gunwharf Gateway and Walls of Approximately 3 Metres to North 38 Metres to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GUNWHARF GATEWAY AND WALLS OF APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO NORTH 38 METRES TO SOUTH, GUNWHARF ROAD
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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:
- FORMER GUNWHARF GATEWAY AND WALLS OF APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES TO NORTH 38 METRES TO SOUTH, GUNWHARF 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:
- SZ 63172 99787
Details
SZ 6399 PORTSMOUTH GUNWHARF ROAD
(West side)
774-1/12/28
HMS Vernon
Former Gunwharf Gateway &
walls of approx 3m to N,
38m to S
GV II
Former entrance into naval ordnance yard, with attached walls. Late C18-early C19, with some alteration to walls in later C19. Red brick in Flemish garden wall bond with rubbed brick and ashlar dressings. Entrance, bricked up, has square gate piers, each with coped side piers; on front and rear sides (west and east) piers have a rubbed brick round-arched recess with ashlar sill and circular recess above; ashlar cornice with blocking course forming base to inward-pointing carved stone mortar finials. To either side of entrance a lower section of wall, each approx. 3 metres long, has blind round arch and flat coping. Wall continues southwards for approx. 35 metres and is approx. 2 metres high with brick string below triangular-sectioned brick coping; it terminates in a square brick pier with chamfered plinth and cogged, stepped, band below capstone.
HISTORY: the gateway provided access into the Board of Ordnance's original Gun Wharf Yard, swallowed by the 1770s New Gun Wharf extension. Armaments and ordnance stores were kept here while ships were in Ordinary at Portsmouth dockyard. The entrance forms part of the development of the Yard, and is notable for the mortar finials. These are found at other Ordnance entrances such as the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, but stone examples are rare.
(Sources: Coad JG: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 180-181, 257-259 ; Coad J: Historic Architecture of HM Naval Base Portsmouth 1700-1850: Portsmouth: 1981: 53,55).
Listing NGR: SU6610802158
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476530
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 180-181
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 257-259
Coad, J, Historic Architecture of H M Naval Base Portsmouth 1700-1850, (1981), 53, 55
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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