LABORATORY BOAT HOUSE (BUILDING 314)

LABORATORY BOAT HOUSE (BUILDING 314), PRIDDY'S HARD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393283
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-2009
List Entry Name:: LABORATORY BOAT HOUSE (BUILDING 314)
Statutory Address:: LABORATORY BOAT HOUSE (BUILDING 314), PRIDDY'S HARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393283
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-2009
List Entry Name:: LABORATORY BOAT HOUSE (BUILDING 314)
Statutory Address 1:: LABORATORY BOAT HOUSE (BUILDING 314), 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:: LABORATORY BOAT HOUSE (BUILDING 314), 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 61705 01240

Details

1137/0/10093 PRIDDY'S HARD 17-APR-09 Laboratory Boat House (Building 314)

GV II Boat house. 1847. In timber frame, but in later C19 rebuilt in brick, all painted, slate roof with lead dressings.

A small rectangular building with low-pitched hipped roof, set on the outer S edge of the Camber (qv) raised on stone piers from the water level. The W end has a central plank door, and on the S side are two wide-spaced multi-pane lights. Central to the ridge is a cropped stack or vent. The interior not inspected or accessible.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Built in 1847 for the new Laboratory complex, this building is prominently located next to the Camber. Despite the importance of water communications in the naval ordnance yards, this is the only example of this building type to have survived. 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.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 499944
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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