Former Guard House, Fort Cumberland
FORMER GUARD HOUSE, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104274
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Guard House, Fort Cumberland
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GUARD HOUSE, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104274
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Guard House, Fort Cumberland
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GUARD HOUSE, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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.
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:
- FORMER GUARD HOUSE, FORT CUMBERLAND, FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD
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:
- SZ 68240 99243
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ69NE FORT CUMBERLAND ROAD, Eastney 774-1/6/161 Former Guard House, Fort Cumberland
GV II
Guardhouse, now store. c1746. Red brick in English bond. Corrugated asbestos roof, cast-iron stack on right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 7 bays. Centre 3 bays project. Front facing south has 7 arcaded bays, each with gauged brick round arch. Brick band at impost level. Set within the centre bay and on left, bay 2 and right, bay 6 is a C20 brick infill with a 12-pane centre transomed casement, with segmental head set under middle part of round arch. Each of the flanking 4 bays are blinded, end bays recessed. On first floor are six 9-pane sashes each set under a gauged brick segmental arch. On far right is a boarded hatch door set under similar segmental brick arch lower than window arches, and approached by iron ladder and landing. On right return is a 2-leaf boarded door with 16-pane fanlight set under gauged brick round arch. Left return similar but with 2-leaf panelled door on right of opening and boarded side panel on left. Rear elevation facing north has three C20 metal casements each set under flat concrete arch with concrete sill. First floor has at centre a boarded hatch door set under gauged brick segmental arch approached by iron stairs and landing. On left are 3 and one right four 9-pane unequal sashes, stone sills. On far left is a similar hatch approached by timber stairs and landing. (Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 22; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 62; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 428).
Listing NGR: SZ6658898977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 62
Balfour, A, Portsmouth, (1970), 22
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 428
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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