Description

PORTSMOUTH

SU6300 QUEEN STREET 774-1/8/99 (North side) 25/09/72 HMS Nelson: former barracks (Building No.14) (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET HMS Victory Barracks, Building No.93, Rodney)

GV II

Formerly known as: Anglesey Barracks QUEEN STREET. Army barracks, now naval barracks. 1847-48, altered mid C20. Red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings. Concealed roof, with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 3;16 window range. Originally forming the centrepiece and right-hand wing of a longer range. Ashlar plinth, 1st-floor band, and eaves cornice below concrete-rendered parapet. 12-pane sashes in reveals with flat gauged brick arches and stone sills. Double board doors with 4-pane overlights, each in ashlar architrave with piers, frieze, cornice and blocking course, which runs into the 1st-floor band. Above each door a tripartite window with wooden mullions and windows of 4, 12 and 4-panes. Former centrepiece projects below pediment with oculus and above, a console-bracketed plinth which formerly supported the statue of a lion (now in Wardroom garden, qv). Wing: 2 left and 3 right bays project slightly; 2 entrances. Rear ground-floor iron Doric colonnade broken by two C20 3-storey, 2-bay projections. At left corner inverted cannon barrel bollard. INTERIOR: entrances lead into stairhalls from which rise stone stairs with stick balusters. HISTORY: the barracks were originally part of the army's Anglesea Barracks and were incorporated into the first naval barracks HMS Victory in 1899. An interesting example of a large mid C19 barracks, and one of the few that remain from immediately before the Crimean War. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 82).

Listing NGR: SU6373200461

External Links

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)