Summary

Terraced shop. Built in around the late C18. Later altered with a modern shopfront.

Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 29 February 2024 to amend the description and to add historic background

5232
SZ 6299 NW 8/66

HIGH STREET

Nos 99 and 99A

II

Terraced shop. Built in around the late C18. Later altered with a modern shopfront.

MATERIALS: blue brick laid in header bond with red brick dressings and a tiled roof.

DESCRIPTION: a three-storey building with a modern shopfront to the ground floor. It is built of blue brick laid in header bond with red brick dressings, including to the quoins and segmental-headed window on the second floor. There is a large first floor curved bay window of three-lights, with cornice, dentils, frieze, architrave, and pilasters between the sashes.


Listing NGR: SZ6210799852

History

Gosport is recorded in 1206 as a ‘newly built’ port town. That which survives of the medieval grid pattern of streets and tenements is situated in what is now ‘Old Gosport’ and incorporates the east-west running High Street (‘Middle Street’ on C18 maps) which is flanked by North Street and South Street, with small cross streets and lanes (such as North Cross Street, South Cross Street and Bemister’s Lane) linking the three. By 1417, Gosport was involved in the defensive system of Portsmouth Harbour with a blockhouse (fort) on Blockhouse Point. A ferry service linked the two towns from the C16 onwards and the subsequent development of Gosport was largely driven by its role in defending the western landward and seaward approaches to the harbour and supplying the Royal Navy. From the late C17 onwards, a line of ramparts and artillery bastions, known as the Gosport Lines, were built surrounding the town. Gosport’s growth over the following three centuries mirrored that of the navy, as boatyards, rope-making facilities, victualling yards, a prison, hospitals, barracks and naval bases were constructed. It also led to demand for housing in large new residential areas beyond the Gosport Lines. During the Second World War, the town suffered major bomb damage and there was extensive post-war rebuilding after 1945.

99 and 99A High Street was built in around the late C18 on the south side of Gosport High Street.

External Links

• Wikidata Q26565996

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)