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Latitude: 50.7983 / 50°47'54"N
Longitude: -1.1266 / 1°7'35"W
OS Eastings: 461650
OS Northings: 100228
OS Grid: SU616002
Mapcode National: GBR VKC.W0
Mapcode Global: FRA 86JZ.GY9
Plus Code: 9C2WQVXF+89
Entry Name: Guard House at Entrance to North Section, St George's Barracks
Listing Date: 20 April 1981
Last Amended: 4 February 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1233872
English Heritage Legacy ID: 409394
ID on this website: 101233872
Location: Gosport, Hampshire, PO12
County: Hampshire
District: Gosport
Electoral Ward/Division: Christchurch
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Gosport
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire
Church of England Parish: Gosport Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth
Tagged with: Architectural structure
GOSPORT
SU 6100 MUMBY ROAD
(West side)
1137-0/5/81
Guard house at entrance to north section, St George's Barracks
20.4.81
GV II
Guard house, disused. 1856-59. Yellow stock brick, painted to front, stone dressings and a flat roof Single-depth plan with rear cells. EXTERIOR: Single storey; 5-arch range. Symmetrical front with an impost band to an arcade of5 open round arches, cornice and parapet; an open area inside the arcade has 3 flat-headed 6/6-pane sashes, and a right-hand doorway, the returns have small front lights with arched heads. An ashlar clock tower has rusticated quoins to a cornice with louvered vents, clock faces originally to 4 sides within round arches and clasping pilasters, to a cornice and pyramidal leaded roof and iron weather vane. INTERIOR: Contains a fire-proof frame of jack arches, with small cells and rooms for the guard. HISTORY: Overlooked the main entrances to the 2 sections of the barracks; clock towers were a common feature of mid C19 barracks. The barracks functioned as a transit station for infantry built after the Crimean War. They were designed to be bomb-proof, against mortar attack, because of their location just inside the Gosport Lines. This is the only example of this type of barracks in the country, forming a complete group with the Lines earthworks, and marking Gosport's importance in the defences around the Portsmouth dockyard. (Harfield A: The Gosport Barracks, sometimes known as "New Barracks": Gosport: 1988-: 16-21; Plans of the Barracks of England: South-Western District: London: 1859-: 8).
Listing NGR: SU5870301371
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