THE ROUND TOWER

THE ROUND TOWER, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1386901
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: THE ROUND TOWER
Statutory Address:: THE ROUND TOWER, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1386901
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: THE ROUND TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: THE ROUND TOWER, BROAD STREET

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:: THE ROUND TOWER, BROAD 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 62911 99373

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6299 BROAD STREET, The Point 774-1/11/457 (West side) 30/10/69 The Round Tower (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET, The Point Square Tower Kings Stairs Sallyport 18 Gun Battery Round Tower Flanking Battery)

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The Round Tower fortification, now museum. c1415. Ground floor reconstructed c1538-40. 2 upper storeys added probably late C17 by Sir Bernard de Gomme and remodified early C19, possibly for adaptation as a Martello Tower. Top raised and reconstructed and adapted as a gun platform c1850. Restored late C20. Ashlar stone. Roof asphalt paved. 3 storeys separated by stone string bands, lower storey projects. Cylindrical. Entrance facing Board Street has a 2-leaf panel door each leaf with a 6-pane glazed upper panel, set under a cambered stone arch. Facing the harbour on north and west sides are 3 gun ports each set under a flat segmental arch. 3 other gun ports were blocked up probably late C17 by Sir Bernard de Gomme. INTERIOR: rebuilt early C19 was reconstructed and has a large central stone column with brick vaulting, casements formed behind the surviving gun ports. (Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 15; Corney A: Fortifications in Old Portsmouth: Portsmouth City Museums: 1965-: 30, 31 AND 32; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 35,54-56,78,79,102; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd D: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 422).

Listing NGR: SZ6292699463

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 474314
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Balfour, A, Portsmouth, (1970), 15
Corney, A , Fortifications in Old Portsmouth, (1965), 30-32
Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 35,54-56
Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 78,79,102
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 422

Legal

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