Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398253

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)