Description

PORTSMOUTH

SU6300 QUEEN STREET
774-1/8/95 (North side)
08/07/98 HMS Nelson: Barham (building No.82)

GV II

Formerly known as: HMS Victory QUEEN STREET.
Naval depot offices. 1899-1903; later alterations and
additions. By and for the Admiralty, Superintendent Engineer
Colonel Sir Henry Pilkington RE. Red brick in English bond
with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with tall, corniced
chimneys. Georgian Revival style.
PLAN: H-shaped plan, with right-hand (east) wing projecting
further at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Chamfered ashlar plinth;
ashlar sill and impost bands and deep moulded eaves cornice.
Windows have 17-pane sashes in reveals with brick apron
panels, thin moulded stone sills, and segmental brick arches
with tripartite ashlar keystones. Dated heads to rainwater
pipes. West elevation (left-hand wing of bock): 5 bays
arranged 2:1:2 the centre projecting under pedimented gable
and with entrance: panelled double door with 3-pane overlight
fronted by Doric columned portico, the columns on tall plinth
and supporting hooded arch, above which ashlar panel rises to
form pilastered architrave to paired sashes; narrow
side-lights on ground floor. Over door, cast metal plaque with
Marlborough Coat of Arms. Set back on left, west elevation of
east wing has 3 lower bays on left (north), cross-windows to
right (south section) and columned cupola on ridge; mid C20
block of one storey added in front (on west side). South
elevation: 2:4:2 bays, the end sections being the gable ends
of the cross-wings and each having a console bracketed
external gable chimney. Wood-columned cupola at centre of
roof.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY: part of the first barracks for sailors in England,
built to similar plans and designs at Devonport, Chatham and
Portsmouth. The latter incorporated parts of Anglesey
barracks.
(Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its environs:
Portsmouth: 1974-: 82).

Listing NGR: SU6373200461

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666802

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)