Description

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6698NE CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney
774-1/27/146 (East side)
25/09/72 Eastney Barracks, Eastney Fort East
(Formerly Listed as:
CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney
Eastney Fort East and Eastney Fort
West, Eastney Barracks)

GV II

Includes: Eastney Barracks, Eastney Fort East EASTNEY
ESPLANADE.
Fort with later military installations. 1862-67 with later
alterations. Flint, red brick and ashlar. Wedge-shaped
enclosure, facing sea, with earth embankments, flint-faced
internally, on west, south and east sides and double ditch
along front (south side). Enclosing wall of flint rubble with
red brick bands, quoined pilasters and rounded coping;
horizontal gun apertures at approximately one metre intervals
and some larger apertures with granite surrounds. Entrance on
north side has large square piers of banded brick and flint
with ashlar quoins and capstones, board gates and mid C20
steel gantry.
INTERIOR: underground casements with arched entrances to
look-out positions. Steps up to parapets. Some surviving gun
emplacements. A number of mid C20 brick buildings and some
concrete emplacements from guns used in 2nd World War.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Listing NGR: SZ6658898977

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666708

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)