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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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

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.

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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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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

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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

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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.