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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666811

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)