Description

PORTSMOUTH

SZ6698NE CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney
774-1/27/152 (East side)
25/09/72 Main Gate and perimeter walls,
Marine Gate
(Formerly Listed as:
CROMWELL ROAD, Eastney
Walls and main gate of Eastney
Barracks facing Cromwell Road)

GV II

Main gate and defensible perimeter walls to RM Eastney
Barracks. 1862-7, by William Scamp, for the Admiralty Works
Department; converted 1995. Flint, red brick and ashlar. Walls
define a rectangular plot, with main gate at mid-point in west
wall, east wall broken by two C20 roads, and on south side
only a short stretch of wall (approx 15 metres long) at either
end terminating in a large square pier. Main gate has banded
brick piers each with ashlar hanging style and frieze below
pedimented capstone which supports large iron lamp standard
with finialed rounded cap. To either side, brick wall has
pedestrian archway; eaves frieze and plain cornice continued
from pier; and outward pointing ashlar mortar. Rest of wall is
of flint rubble with red brick bands, quoined pilaster strips
and stepped rounded coping; horizontal gun apertures with
stone lintels at approx 1 metre intervals. The terminating
piers of south wall have quadrant steps up to a round archway
on inner face; slits to north and south faces; band below
massive, roll moulded stepped pyramidal capstone; and to the
west pier a low screen wall, formerly surmounted by inward
pointing ashlar mortar and pile of mortar balls (removed
1992).
HISTORY: the walls formed the perimeter to the former Marines
barracks, illustrating the defensible nature of the barracks.
This is probably the last large defensible barracks built in
the country, designed against an external threat, rather than
for the more usual civil order duties. Part of the best and
most complete barracks of the post-Crimean war period.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd D: Hampshire and
the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 429; PSA Drawings
Collection, NMR, Swindon: 1862-1865: PTM/2275-2383).

Listing NGR: SZ6658898977

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666756

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House