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Latitude: 50.8031 / 50°48'11"N
Longitude: -1.0951 / 1°5'42"W
OS Eastings: 463861
OS Northings: 100783
OS Grid: SU638007
Mapcode National: GBR VQD.J4
Mapcode Global: FRA 86LZ.36C
Plus Code: 9C2WRW33+6X
Entry Name: The Unicorn Gate
Listing Date: 13 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1244587
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476642
ID on this website: 101244587
Location: Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1
County: City of Portsmouth
Electoral Ward/Division: Charles Dickens
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Portsmouth
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire
Church of England Parish: St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth
Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth
Tagged with: Gate
SU 6300 CIRCULAR ROAD
HM Naval Base
The Unicorn Gate
774-1/8/193
GV II
Includes: The Unicorn Gate, UNICORN ROAD HM NAVAL BASE
Portsea town gate, then entrance to naval dockyard. 1779 (Patterson), demolished and re-erected as dockyard entrance 1865 (Lloyd). Ashlar. Central carriage archway flanked by pedestrian archways, all round-arched. Vermiculated plinth. Rusticated centrepiece breaks forward, the archway has dropped keystone and voussoirs aligned to courses; flanking paired pilasters support entablature with cornice and pediment in which is unicorn couchant and bearing standard. Pedestrian archways have architraves and are set in walls which have cornices, sweep up to centre, and terminate in square piers with cornices and ball on cushion finials.
HISTORY: the Unicorn Gate was originally located on Anchor Gate Road, just east of the present Anchor Gate (not included, Patterson). It is now reset on the alignment of the dockyard extension wall (qv).
(Sources: Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974: 62; A Military Heritage: Patterson BH: A History of Portsmouth and Portsea Town Fortifications: Portsmouth: 1984: 25, 26).
SU6300 UNICORN ROAD
HM Naval Base
The Unicorn Gate
774-1/8/193
GV II
See under: The Unicorn Gate, CIRCULAR ROAD HM NAVAL BASE
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
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