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Dockyard Extension Wall

A Grade II Listed Building in Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8035 / 50°48'12"N

Longitude: -1.0931 / 1°5'35"W

OS Eastings: 463999

OS Northings: 100829

OS Grid: SU639008

Mapcode National: GBR VQP.K4

Mapcode Global: FRA 86LZ.3Y7

Plus Code: 9C2WRW34+9P

Entry Name: Dockyard Extension Wall

Listing Date: 13 August 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1244592

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476646

ID on this website: 101244592

Location: Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1

County: City of Portsmouth

Electoral Ward/Division: Charles Dickens

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Portsmouth

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire

Church of England Parish: St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth

Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth

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Description


SU 6401 CIRCULAR ROAD
HM Naval Base
Dockyard Extension Wall
774-1/7/190

GV II


Includes: Dockyard Extension Wall, FLATHOUSE ROAD HM NAVAL BASE
Dockyard wall. c1864 -1870 (Riley) with C20 alterations. Rubblestone and red brick. Chamfered plinth. Quoined brick pilaster strips and brick bands. Domed brick coping. Wall is approx. 4 metres high and at irregular intervals ramps up over round archways which give access to gun bastions
which on the outer face of the wall are expressed as corbelled semi- circular oriels with 3 gun slits and coping. At intervals there are bricked-up quoined doorways with concreted lintels. Opposite building No. 3/88 (not included) is the old Pitt Street Gate which has rectangular piers of banded brick and concrete blocks with flat concrete coping and lamps; 2-leaf board gate with iron spikes. Near the Unicorn Gate ( qv) on the inner side of the wall is a reset small iron cupboard having strap- hinged door with circular vents and central hole. Originally the cupboard was set nearer the Unicorn Gate and in the outer face of the wall; inside was a gas jet from which pipes could be lit.
HISTORY: the cupboard was on the outside of the wall since smoking and carrying of matches was forbidden inside the dockyard. The wall was built as part of the dockyard extension programme which was begun in 1864, the scheme for it being drawn up by Colonel Sir Andrew Clarke (Royal Engineers).
(Sources: The Buildings of England: Lloyd D: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1985: 418; The Portsmouth Papers: Riley RC: The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth: Portsmouth: 1985: 22, 25).


SU 6401 FLATHOUSE ROAD
HM Naval Base
774-1/7/190 Dockyard Extension Wall

GV II


See under: Dockyard Extension Wall, CIRCULAR ROAD HM NAVAL BASE


Listing NGR: SU6299200361

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