Former Eastney House, Linking Archway and Railings Teapot Row
1 AND 2, CLOCK TOWER DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387085
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former Eastney House, Linking Archway and Railings Teapot Row
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, CLOCK TOWER DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387085
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Eastney House, Linking Archway and Railings Teapot Row
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, CLOCK TOWER DRIVE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 1 AND 2, ROYAL GATE
- Statutory Address 3:
- FORMER EASTNEY HOUSE, LINKING ARCHWAY AND RAILINGS, CROMWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address 4:
- TEAPOT ROW, 1-23, CLOCK TOWER DRIVE
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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:
- 1 AND 2, CLOCK TOWER DRIVE
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, ROYAL GATE
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER EASTNEY HOUSE, LINKING ARCHWAY AND RAILINGS, CROMWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- TEAPOT ROW, 1-23, CLOCK TOWER DRIVE
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 66572 98709
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6698NE CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney 774-1/27/148 (East side) 25/09/72 Former Eastney House, linking archway & railings (Formerly Listed as: CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney Eastney House, Archway, CO's Residence, HQ Training Group RM Eastney Barracks)
GV II
Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 ROYAL GATE. Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 CLOCK TOWER DRIVE. Includes: Nos 1-23 Teapot Row CLOCK TOWER DRIVE. Officers' quarters, part converted to offices, now flats and linking archway and attached railings. 1864-1866, designed by William Scamp for the Admiralty Works Department; converted 1995. Red brick in English bond with brighter-red brick arches; yellow-brick rusticated angle and dividing pilaster strips; ashlar plinth band, architraves, 1st-floor sillband and eaves cornice with blocking course. Slate roofs, that of former Eastney House and Terrace a hipped mansard with pedimented dormers. Tall multi-flue brick stacks to party walls. EXTERIOR: all of 3 storeys with basement and attic. Former Eastney House and Terrace (now Teapot Row nos 1-23) has south elevation of 23 bays, the 5 left-hand bays (former Eastney House) projecting slightly and the rest of the range divided into 3-bay sections. At east end is archway linking this range to former Alford House, with former Training Office to rear (now Clocktower Drive Nos 1 & 2 and Royal Gate Nos 1 & 2). This is of 4 bays, arranged 2:2 and with 2 attic windows. Windows have ashlar architraves and are round-arched on ground floor, segmental-arched above. Attached railings have spear-headed bars. Rear (north side) of former Eastney House and Terrace is similar, but with paired projecting 4-storey entrance bays, stepped back on 2nd and 3rd floors. Entrance to former Eastney House is on left (west) end within single-storey porch with round archway, cornice and blocking course. Linking archway has taller carriageway flanked by pedestrian arches, all round-arched with rusticated piers and arches; plain cornices and coped parapets above outer arches; deeper cornice and blocking course over central arch.
East elevation of former Alford House and former Training Office (Royal Gate Nos 1 & 2) is slightly asymmetrical, of 5+5 bays, those on right projecting slightly. Projecting full-height entrance bay to bay 3 has part-glazed door with rusticated surround up stone steps. Similar entrance in 2-storey slight projection with cornice and blocking course at bay 8. Windows are round-arched on ground floor, flat-arched above, the 2 left hand bays with blind windows on ground and 2nd floors. West elevation (Clocktower Drive Nos 1 & 2) has 2 similar entrances, now windows, and stone architraves to windows. INTERIOR: Eastney House, formerly the senior officer's residence, retains some panelled doors and shutters and decorative plaster ceilings (boxed in). Some similar features survive in Eastney Terrace. HISTORY: William Scamp was the assistant director of the Admiralty Works Department. The carefully laid-out site beside the seashore reflects its use by Marines; it is also probably the last large defensible barracks built in the country. Part of the best and most complete barracks of the post-Crimean War period. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 84; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: 1864-1865: PTM/2172-2183).
Listing NGR: SZ6658898977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 84
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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