FORMER GUARDROOM, MARINE GATE THE GATEHOUSE

FORMER GUARDROOM, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387086
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER GUARDROOM, MARINE GATE THE GATEHOUSE
Statutory Address:: FORMER GUARDROOM, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387086
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER GUARDROOM, MARINE GATE THE GATEHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER GUARDROOM, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: THE GATEHOUSE, ROYAL GATE

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:: FORMER GUARDROOM, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD
Statutory Address:: THE GATEHOUSE, ROYAL GATE

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 66554 98821

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6698NE CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney 774-1/27/149 (East side) 08/07/98 Former Guardroom, Marine Gate

GV II

Includes: The Gatehouse ROYAL GATE. Guardroom at RM Eastney Barracks, now flats. c1864, designed by William Scamp, for the Admiralty Works Department; converted 1997. Red brick in Flemish bond, rear and west gable with stucco scored as ashlar; ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick stacks, rendered at rear. 2 storeys; 9 bays with portico across north side. Rusticated brick quoins and piers and arches to portico, plat band; stepped eaves; ashlar pediments to gables. Segmental-arched 12-pane sashes in reveals with stone sills. Board doors with overlights with glazing bars. Portico is of 7 + 2 bays, linking guardroom to main gate and perimeter wall (qv), and has round-arched openings at ends with segmental-arched openings between. INTERIOR: row of former cells at rear of range of which 2 retain original, vented, doors. HISTORY: William Scamp was the assistant director of the Admiralty Works Department. The carefully laid-out plan 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. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: 1864-: PTM/2280).

Listing NGR: SZ6658898977

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Legacy System number:: 474502
Legacy System:: LBS

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