HMS Excellent: Drill Shed (Building Number 190)
HMS EXCELLENT: DRILL SHED (BUILDING NUMBER 190), WHALE ISLAND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387270
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Excellent: Drill Shed (Building Number 190)
- Statutory Address:
- HMS EXCELLENT: DRILL SHED (BUILDING NUMBER 190), WHALE ISLAND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387270
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- HMS Excellent: Drill Shed (Building Number 190)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HMS EXCELLENT: DRILL SHED (BUILDING NUMBER 190), WHALE ISLAND
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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:
- HMS EXCELLENT: DRILL SHED (BUILDING NUMBER 190), WHALE ISLAND
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 63878 02136
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SU60SW WHALE ISLAND 774-1/3/467 HMS Excellent: Drill shed (Building 08/07/98 No.190)
II
Naval drill hall, gunnery school. Dated 1892. Red brick in English bond with brighter-red brick arches and ashlar dressings; corrugated-iron roof. PLAN/EXTERIOR: large rectangular structure of one storey, 3 x 19 bays, open on north side (onto Parade Ground). Chamfered plinth; giant brick pilasters flanking recessed panels and linked by stepped eaves bands. End elevations each have projecting central bay with wide round-arched entrance containing double door below tympanum of diagonally-laid brickwork, imposts, keystone with fouled anchor (and date at west end) rising into brick band; above, oculus with radial glazing bars; pedimented gable flanked by swept brackets and with ashlar coping and ball-on-spire finial; to flanking bays, blind segmental-arched windows. South elevation: small-pane metal windows in segmental-arched openings, the bays defined by buttresses with offset heads. North elevation: square-columned arcade, each bay having 9-light glazed head. Full-length ridge clerestory with louvres. INTERIOR: a wide-span roof of tensile trusses made of diagonal wrought-iron ties from a canted cross tie to angle iron principals, and braces of paired flat iron. HISTORY: the first barracks were built here in 1863 as part of the naval gunnery school. A large hall for indoor drill practice, comparable with the large examples at the main naval barracks at Plymouth and Chatham and included for its historic technical interest. (The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy: Oxford: 1995-: 255).
Listing NGR: SU6377602639
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475202
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hill, J R, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, (1995), 255
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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