The Unicorn Gate Portsmouth, England
Listed Building Data
The Unicorn Gate has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1244587
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 13 August 1999
- Name
- THE UNICORN GATE
- Location
- THE UNICORN GATE, CIRCULAR ROAD
- District
- City of Portsmouth
- Grid Reference
- SU 63861 00783
- Easting
- 463860.7230
- Northing
- 100783.0930
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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
