BAMFORD HOUSE, DOWELL HOUSE, FINCH HOUSE, HALLIDAY HOUSE FORMER LONG BARRACKS AND SCREEN WALLS TO EAST AND WEST, MARINE GATE HARVEY HOUSE, PRETTYJOHN HOUSE, WILKINSON HOUSE

BAMFORD HOUSE, DOWELL HOUSE, FINCH HOUSE, HALLIDAY HOUSE, 1-6, GUNNERS ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387087
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: BAMFORD HOUSE, DOWELL HOUSE, FINCH HOUSE, HALLIDAY HOUSE FORMER LONG BARRACKS AND SCREEN WALLS TO EAST AND WEST, MARINE GATE HARVEY HOUSE, PRETTYJOHN HOUSE, WILKINSON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BAMFORD HOUSE, DOWELL HOUSE, FINCH HOUSE, HALLIDAY HOUSE, 1-6, GUNNERS ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387087
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: BAMFORD HOUSE, DOWELL HOUSE, FINCH HOUSE, HALLIDAY HOUSE FORMER LONG BARRACKS AND SCREEN WALLS TO EAST AND WEST, MARINE GATE HARVEY HOUSE, PRETTYJOHN HOUSE, WILKINSON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BAMFORD HOUSE, DOWELL HOUSE, FINCH HOUSE, HALLIDAY HOUSE, 1-6, GUNNERS ROW
Statutory Address 2:: FORMER LONG BARRACKS AND SCREEN WALLS TO EAST AND WEST, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: HARVEY HOUSE, PRETTYJOHN HOUSE, WILKINSON HOUSE, 1-6, GUNNERS ROW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BAMFORD HOUSE, DOWELL HOUSE, FINCH HOUSE, HALLIDAY HOUSE, 1-6, GUNNERS ROW
Statutory Address:: FORMER LONG BARRACKS AND SCREEN WALLS TO EAST AND WEST, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD
Statutory Address:: HARVEY HOUSE, PRETTYJOHN HOUSE, WILKINSON HOUSE, 1-6, GUNNERS ROW

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 66731 98858

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6698NE CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney 774-1/27/150 (East side) 11/04/86 Former Long Barracks and screen walls to E and W, Marine Gate (Formerly Listed as: CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney Long Barracks and screen walls to east & west)

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Includes: Harvey House, Prettyjohn House, Wilkinson House (Nos.1-6 consec) GUNNERS ROW. Includes: Bamford House, Dowell House, Finch House, Halliday House (Nos.1-6 consec) GUNNERS ROW. Terrace of barrack blocks at RM Eastney Barracks, now houses. 1863-5, designed by William Scamp for the Admiralty Works Department; converted 1995. Brown brick in Flemish bond with red and yellow brick and Portland stone dressings. Slate roofs with brick stacks. PLAN: a terrace of 7 linked blocks, each with a central stair/ablution block projecting at front and rear, flanked by barrack rooms. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, each block 4:3:4 bays, the centre projecting under hipped roof. Rusticated red brick bands, and quoined pilasters between blocks. Stone sillbands to 1st and 2nd floors. Stepped, cogged, brick eaves. Windows are 12-pane sashes in reveals, on ground floor round-arched, on 1st-floor segmental-arched, and on 2nd floor with rubbed flat arches; on ground floor the windows are set in recesses which have dropped "keystones" and "stepped voussoirs" of red and yellow brick. To each barrack a central three-quarter glazed door with fanlight. Rising between alternate windows of barrack rooms are tall chimneys with coupled flues and oversailing caps. Attached to east and west ends are rusticated red brick screen walls each with a tall central carriageway flanked by lower pedestrian arches, all round-arched, the pedestrian arches having plain stone cornices and coped brick parapets above; the carriageways having stone cornices and blocking courses supporting outward pointing mortars and piles of mortar balls. Rear of barrack block plainer, having brick sillbands, and windows simply segmental-arched on ground floor. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: a remarkable barrack block, the longest in the country after the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich. William

Scamp was the assistant director of the Admiralty Works Department, and associated with the Royal Dockyards at this time. 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. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd D: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1985-: 429; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: 1862-: PTM/2243).

Listing NGR: SZ6658898977

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Lloyd, D, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1985), 429

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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.