EMPTY PACKAGE STORE (BUILDING 428), MUSEUM BUILDINGS

EMPTY PACKAGE STORE (BUILDING 428), MUSEUM BUILDINGS, PRIDDY'S HARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393282
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-2009
List Entry Name:: EMPTY PACKAGE STORE (BUILDING 428), MUSEUM BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: EMPTY PACKAGE STORE (BUILDING 428), MUSEUM BUILDINGS, PRIDDY'S HARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393282
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-2009
List Entry Name:: EMPTY PACKAGE STORE (BUILDING 428), MUSEUM BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: EMPTY PACKAGE STORE (BUILDING 428), MUSEUM BUILDINGS, PRIDDY'S HARD

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:: EMPTY PACKAGE STORE (BUILDING 428), MUSEUM BUILDINGS, PRIDDY'S HARD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Gosport (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 61647 01277

Details

1137/0/10091 PRIDDY'S HARD 17-APR-09 Empty Package Store (Building 428), Mu seum Buildings

GV II Empty package store. 1896/7. Brick in English bond, slate roof on timber trusses.

A small gabled building, lying parallel with and against the NE end of 'B' Magazine (qv), in 5 bays, with entrance at the N end. At the N end is a pair of plank doors, and the opposite gable has a multi-pane window; the long E side has central plank doors flanked by small 18-pane lights, all to cambered heads with brick headers in three rows, and stone sills.

INTERIOR: has king-post trusses on internal brick piers, with rafters and close boarding; boarded floor. It was originally served by the narrow gauge tramway system.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Prominently sited between the main magazine group and the Camber. These stores are associated with the introduction of shells into naval service, each shell being individually packed into its own wooden box. It is one of a series of such rooms, comprising one of the core group of buildings on this uniquely important site.

The magazines and related structures at Priddy's Hard date from the late 18th century. The site's expansion from the mid 19th century was closely related to the development of land and sea artillery and the navy's transition from the age of sail, powder and solid shot to the Dreadnought class of the early 1900s. Priddy's Hard retains the best-preserved range of structures that relate to this remarkable history of continual enlargement and adaptation, one that encompasses that of Britain's dominance as a sea power on a global scale. For further historical details on this site, see the description for 'A' Magazine.

A small building, but part of the overall magazine operation, and surviving practically unchanged.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 499942
Legacy System:: LBS

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