South west section of boundary wall to Tipner Magazine

Tipner Magazine, Tipner Point, Tipner

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387243
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1979
List Entry Name:: South west section of boundary wall to Tipner Magazine
Statutory Address:: Tipner Magazine, Tipner Point, Tipner

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387243
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Mar-1999
List Entry Name:: South west section of boundary wall to Tipner Magazine
Statutory Address 1:: Tipner Magazine, Tipner Point, Tipner

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:: Tipner Magazine, Tipner Point, Tipner

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 63936 03499

Details

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TIPNER TIPNER POINT South west section of boundary wall to Tipner Magazine (Formerly listed as: TIPNER LANE, TIPNER. APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES OF BOUNDARY WALL IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF TIPNER MAGAZINE) 22-NOV-79

GV II Boundary wall to ordnance depot. 1789-1800. Red brick in English bond. Approximately 3 metres high with recessed panels, brick dentil course at top of each recess then four full width courses and round brick capping. Extends approximately 30m to south west corner of magazine (qv). Boundary wall protected the landward side of the magazine, other sides protected by the sea.

HISTORY: The recent war with France, and the invasion scare of 1779 led to concerns about the vulnerability of the arsenals and had exposed an alarming situation concerning the state of the nation's gunpowder. The former was foremost in the mind of the new (appointed 1782) Master-General of the Board of Ordnance, George Lennox the Third Duke of Richmond. Although his plan to enhance the landward fortifications of Portsmouth and Plymouth was defeated in the House of Commons in 1786, his other strategy - to divide and separate the magazines - was implemented at Portsmouth with the acquisition of land at Tipner Point between 1789 and 1791.

The original design for a pair of circular vaulted magazines was superceded by the present one for a magazine with groined arches and a copper-clad wooden roof. From 1805 until the mid 1820s Tipner acted as deposit magazine for the restoving of old gunpowder at Stamshaw nearby (demolished). The magazine accommodation at Tipner, Marchwood and Upnor was increased following appraisal by Lord Panmure, the Secretary of State for War, of the Committee on Magazines report of March 1856.

The southern extension to the magazine was built with parabolic arches, as used at Weedon Bec and Upnor. On the division of the ordnance depots between the two services in 1890, the site passed to the Army, and on conversion of the magazines into general ordnance storage the present iron doors were inserted.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 475175
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
David Evans, Ordnance Yards. Research for English Heritage

Legal

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