HMS NELSON: BARHAM (BUILDING NUMBER 82)

HMS NELSON: BARHAM (BUILDING NUMBER 82), QUEEN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387139
Date first listed:: 07-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: HMS NELSON: BARHAM (BUILDING NUMBER 82)
Statutory Address:: HMS NELSON: BARHAM (BUILDING NUMBER 82), QUEEN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387139
Date first listed:: 07-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: HMS NELSON: BARHAM (BUILDING NUMBER 82)
Statutory Address 1:: HMS NELSON: BARHAM (BUILDING NUMBER 82), QUEEN STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HMS NELSON: BARHAM (BUILDING NUMBER 82), QUEEN STREET

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:: SU 63864 00502

Details

PORTSMOUTH

SU6300 QUEEN STREET 774-1/8/95 (North side) 08/07/98 HMS Nelson: Barham (building No.82)

GV II

Formerly known as: HMS Victory QUEEN STREET. Naval depot offices. 1899-1903; later alterations and additions. By and for the Admiralty, Superintendent Engineer Colonel Sir Henry Pilkington RE. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with tall, corniced chimneys. Georgian Revival style. PLAN: H-shaped plan, with right-hand (east) wing projecting further at rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Chamfered ashlar plinth; ashlar sill and impost bands and deep moulded eaves cornice. Windows have 17-pane sashes in reveals with brick apron panels, thin moulded stone sills, and segmental brick arches with tripartite ashlar keystones. Dated heads to rainwater pipes. West elevation (left-hand wing of bock): 5 bays arranged 2:1:2 the centre projecting under pedimented gable and with entrance: panelled double door with 3-pane overlight fronted by Doric columned portico, the columns on tall plinth and supporting hooded arch, above which ashlar panel rises to form pilastered architrave to paired sashes; narrow side-lights on ground floor. Over door, cast metal plaque with Marlborough Coat of Arms. Set back on left, west elevation of east wing has 3 lower bays on left (north), cross-windows to right (south section) and columned cupola on ridge; mid C20 block of one storey added in front (on west side). South elevation: 2:4:2 bays, the end sections being the gable ends of the cross-wings and each having a console bracketed external gable chimney. Wood-columned cupola at centre of roof. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: part of the first barracks for sailors in England, built to similar plans and designs at Devonport, Chatham and Portsmouth. The latter incorporated parts of Anglesey barracks. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 82).

Listing NGR: SU6373200461

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 475043
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 82

Legal

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