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Latitude: 50.7852 / 50°47'6"N
Longitude: -1.0573 / 1°3'26"W
OS Eastings: 466554
OS Northings: 98822
OS Grid: SZ665988
Mapcode National: GBR VXF.0J
Mapcode Global: FRA 87N0.KYH
Plus Code: 9C2WQWPV+33
Entry Name: Former Guardroom, Marine Gate the Gatehouse
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1387086
English Heritage Legacy ID: 474502
ID on this website: 101387086
Location: Eastney, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO4
County: City of Portsmouth
Electoral Ward/Division: Eastney and Craneswater
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Portsmouth
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire
Church of England Parish: Milton St James
Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth
Tagged with: Gatehouse
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6698NE CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney 774-1/27/149 (East side) 08/07/98 Former Guardroom, Marine Gate
GV II
Includes: The Gatehouse ROYAL GATE. Guardroom at RM Eastney Barracks, now flats. c1864, designed by William Scamp, for the Admiralty Works Department; converted 1997. Red brick in Flemish bond, rear and west gable with stucco scored as ashlar; ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick stacks, rendered at rear. 2 storeys; 9 bays with portico across north side. Rusticated brick quoins and piers and arches to portico, plat band; stepped eaves; ashlar pediments to gables. Segmental-arched 12-pane sashes in reveals with stone sills. Board doors with overlights with glazing bars. Portico is of 7 + 2 bays, linking guardroom to main gate and perimeter wall (qv), and has round-arched openings at ends with segmental-arched openings between. INTERIOR: row of former cells at rear of range of which 2 retain original, vented, doors. HISTORY: William Scamp was the assistant director of the Admiralty Works Department. The carefully laid-out plan 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. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: 1864-: PTM/2280).
Listing NGR: SZ6658898977
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