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PORTSMOUTH

SZ6698NE CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney
774-1/27/148 (East side)
25/09/72 Former Eastney House, linking
archway & railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney
Eastney House, Archway, CO's
Residence, HQ Training Group RM
Eastney Barracks)

GV II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 ROYAL GATE.
Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 CLOCK TOWER DRIVE.
Includes: Nos 1-23 Teapot Row CLOCK TOWER DRIVE.
Officers' quarters, part converted to offices, now flats and
linking archway and attached railings. 1864-1866, designed by
William Scamp for the Admiralty Works Department; converted
1995. Red brick in English bond with brighter-red brick
arches; yellow-brick rusticated angle and dividing pilaster
strips; ashlar plinth band, architraves, 1st-floor sillband
and eaves cornice with blocking course. Slate roofs, that of
former Eastney House and Terrace a hipped mansard with
pedimented dormers. Tall multi-flue brick stacks to party
walls.
EXTERIOR: all of 3 storeys with basement and attic. Former
Eastney House and Terrace (now Teapot Row nos 1-23) has south
elevation of 23 bays, the 5 left-hand bays (former Eastney
House) projecting slightly and the rest of the range divided
into 3-bay sections. At east end is archway linking this range
to former Alford House, with former Training Office to rear
(now Clocktower Drive Nos 1 & 2 and Royal Gate Nos 1 & 2).
This is of 4 bays, arranged 2:2 and with 2 attic windows.
Windows have ashlar architraves and are round-arched on ground
floor, segmental-arched above. Attached railings have
spear-headed bars.
Rear (north side) of former Eastney House and Terrace is
similar, but with paired projecting 4-storey entrance bays,
stepped back on 2nd and 3rd floors.
Entrance to former Eastney House is on left (west) end within
single-storey porch with round archway, cornice and blocking
course.
Linking archway has taller carriageway flanked by pedestrian
arches, all round-arched with rusticated piers and arches;
plain cornices and coped parapets above outer arches; deeper
cornice and blocking course over central arch.

East elevation of former Alford House and former Training
Office (Royal Gate Nos 1 & 2) is slightly asymmetrical, of 5+5
bays, those on right projecting slightly. Projecting
full-height entrance bay to bay 3 has part-glazed door with
rusticated surround up stone steps. Similar entrance in
2-storey slight projection with cornice and blocking course at
bay 8. Windows are round-arched on ground floor, flat-arched
above, the 2 left hand bays with blind windows on ground and
2nd floors.
West elevation (Clocktower Drive Nos 1 & 2) has 2 similar
entrances, now windows, and stone architraves to windows.
INTERIOR: Eastney House, formerly the senior officer's
residence, retains some panelled doors and shutters and
decorative plaster ceilings (boxed in). Some similar features
survive in Eastney Terrace.
HISTORY: William Scamp was the assistant director of the
Admiralty Works Department. The carefully laid-out site beside
the seashore reflects its use by Marines; it is also probably
the last large defensible barracks built in the country. Part
of the best and most complete barracks of the post-Crimean War
period.
(Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs:
Portsmouth: 1974-: 84; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon:
1864-1865: PTM/2172-2183).

Listing NGR: SZ6658898977