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
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- 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
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/12755/25
- Rights:
- © Mr Glyn Edmunds . Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial 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
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:
- 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)
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Lloyd, D, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1985), 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 03-Jun-2026 at 23:06:36.
Download a full scale map (PDF)© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
End of official list entry