Main Gate and Perimeter Walls, Marine Gate
MAIN GATE AND PERIMETER WALLS, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387089
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Main Gate and Perimeter Walls, Marine Gate
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN GATE AND PERIMETER WALLS, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387089
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Main Gate and Perimeter Walls, Marine Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN GATE AND PERIMETER WALLS, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL ROAD
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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.
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:
- MAIN GATE AND PERIMETER WALLS, MARINE GATE, CROMWELL 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:
- SZ 66534 98824
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6698NE CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney 774-1/27/152 (East side) 25/09/72 Main Gate and perimeter walls, Marine Gate (Formerly Listed as: CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney Walls and main gate of Eastney Barracks facing Cromwell Road)
GV II
Main gate and defensible perimeter walls to RM Eastney Barracks. 1862-7, by William Scamp, for the Admiralty Works Department; converted 1995. Flint, red brick and ashlar. Walls define a rectangular plot, with main gate at mid-point in west wall, east wall broken by two C20 roads, and on south side only a short stretch of wall (approx 15 metres long) at either end terminating in a large square pier. Main gate has banded brick piers each with ashlar hanging style and frieze below pedimented capstone which supports large iron lamp standard with finialed rounded cap. To either side, brick wall has pedestrian archway; eaves frieze and plain cornice continued from pier; and outward pointing ashlar mortar. Rest of wall is of flint rubble with red brick bands, quoined pilaster strips and stepped rounded coping; horizontal gun apertures with stone lintels at approx 1 metre intervals. The terminating piers of south wall have quadrant steps up to a round archway on inner face; slits to north and south faces; band below massive, roll moulded stepped pyramidal capstone; and to the west pier a low screen wall, formerly surmounted by inward pointing ashlar mortar and pile of mortar balls (removed 1992). HISTORY: the walls formed the perimeter to the former Marines barracks, illustrating the defensible nature of the barracks. This is probably the last large defensible barracks built in the country, designed against an external threat, rather than for the more usual civil order duties. 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: 1967-: 429; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: 1862-1865: PTM/2275-2383).
Listing NGR: SZ6658898977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474505
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 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.
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