Mill Dam House
MILL DAM HOUSE, BURNABY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386911
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Dam House
- Statutory Address:
- MILL DAM HOUSE, BURNABY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386911
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Dam House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL DAM HOUSE, BURNABY ROAD
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:
- MILL DAM HOUSE, BURNABY 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:
- SU 63559 00095
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SU6300 BURNABY ROAD, Portsea 774-1/8/296 (West side) 25/09/72 Mill Dam House
GV II
Barracks and offices for Royal Engineers, now offices. Dated 1846, restored 1990. Red brick with grey header bricks in Flemish bond. Low pitched Welsh slate hipped roof. Late Georgian style. PLAN: central open courtyard with stair and single-depth rooms to 3 sides. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 7 bays, centre 3 bays project. Symmetrical front with matching sides. At centre is a 2-leaf 6 panelled door with fanlight under gauged brick round arch set in later projecting porch with stone coped facing gable, moulded stone apex with inscribed shield which reads 'R.E. Office'. To left and to right six 12-pane sashes each set under gauged brick flat arch. First floor has 7 similar sashes. The centre 3 bay projection has stone band at first floor, brick band over first floor and facing stone gabled parapet, flanking bays have brick band, stone cornice and rendered block parapet. Left and right returns are similar with central pediments, on left of right return is a later 6 flush panel door with margin glazed overlight. INTERIOR: largely complete interior with a large open central stair hall containing an interesting cast-iron Imperial stair, with galleries to 3 sides on first floor and stairs leading up on 4th side, with cast-iron risers, tread balusters and handrail, and original joinery and plasterwork. HISTORY: the exact purpose of this precisely planned building is not known, and Engineer's barracks are rare. The patterned brickwork is similar to that found on the c1810 stores at the former Ordnance yard at Gunwharf. Of considerable historic interest, and for its unusual plan form and stair. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 82; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 429).
Listing NGR: SU6355900095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 82
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 429
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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