CUSTOMS WATCH HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALKWAY AND OBSERVATION HUT

CUSTOMS WATCH HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALKWAY AND OBSERVATION HUT, BATH SQUARE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386827
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: CUSTOMS WATCH HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALKWAY AND OBSERVATION HUT
Statutory Address:: CUSTOMS WATCH HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALKWAY AND OBSERVATION HUT, BATH SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1386827
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: CUSTOMS WATCH HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALKWAY AND OBSERVATION HUT
Statutory Address 1:: CUSTOMS WATCH HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALKWAY AND OBSERVATION HUT, BATH SQUARE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CUSTOMS WATCH HOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALKWAY AND OBSERVATION HUT, BATH SQUARE

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 62867 99531

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6299 BATH SQUARE, The Point 774-1/11/438 (West side) 25/09/72 Customs Watch-house with attached walkway and observation hut (Formerly Listed as: BATH SQUARE Her Majesty's Customs Waterguard Office)

GV II

Customs watchouse, now house, with attached walkway and observation hut. Late C18, altered, with 1952 addition. Walkway and observation hut late C19. Red brick with grey headers in Flemish bond. Hipped mansard plain tile roof, brick stack on right. Extension of red brick in stretcher bond. Observation hut weatherboarded with pyramidal lead roof with finial. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays and 2-bay extension to left. Double doors on right below segmental arch with brackets from former cartouche above. First-floor sash window below flat gauged brick arches. Late C20 lantern fixed to wall. Brick dentil cornice and coped parapet. Late C20 2-light dormer. Rear much altered with canted bay window. Renewed attached walkway at first-floor level leads to observation hut. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SZ6289499522

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 474237
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.