Gatcombe House
GATCOMBE HOUSE, COPNOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387032
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Gatcombe House
- Statutory Address:
- GATCOMBE HOUSE, COPNOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387032
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Gatcombe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATCOMBE HOUSE, COPNOR 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:
- GATCOMBE HOUSE, COPNOR 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 65822 03409
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SU60SE COPNOR ROAD, Hilsea 774-1/4/9 (West side) 25/09/72 Gatcombe House
II
Large country house, later offices for the former Hilsea Barracks, still later students hostel, now builders offices. 1780-1800, additional wings 1887. Restored and altered c1985. Yellow brick in Flemish bond, stone dressings. 3 Welsh slated hipped roofs, brick stack at right of centre wing and right of right wing. T-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 10 bays (3:5:3) 3 storeys. Centre part of 5 bays projects. Top 2 storeys of north wing added 1985. At centre 4 stone steps approach a recessed half glazed 9-pane door, fanlight with patterned radial glazing set under round brick arch, panelled reveals and soffits. Doorway has flanking stone engaged Roman Ionic columns, broken entablature and open dentilled pediment. On left and right is a 1-storey C19 rectangular brick bay each with 2 front sashes and 1 sash to each return set under flat gauged brick arches, brick dentil band and stone coped parapet. Each of the left and right recessed wings has three 9-pane sashes. On first floor are eleven 12-pane sashes and on second floor eleven 6-pane sashes, each sash set under flat gauged brick arch with stone sill; brick dentil band and stone coped parapet. Rear elevation includes 3 and 2-storey red brick extensions, altered c1985. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 26, 28, 31, 153; The Buildings of England: Lloyd D: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 430).
Listing NGR: SU6582903408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474448
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 26,28,31
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 153
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 430
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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