Round Tower Portsmouth, England
Listed Building Data
Round Tower 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1244590
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 13 August 1999
- Name
- ROUND TOWER
- Location
- ROUND TOWER, CIRCULAR ROAD
- District
- City of Portsmouth
- Grid Reference
- SU 63908 01392
- Easting
- 463908.3350
- Northing
- 101392.4580
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SU 60 SW CIRCULAR ROAD (North, off) 774-1/3/192 HM Naval Base Round Tower
GV II
Part of dockyard sea defence wall, now naval accommodation. Built 1843-48 under direction of Captain H James RE; dismantled and re-erected in present position 1867 (Patterson, p28). Ashlar. Circular 3-stage tower, the lower stage battered, with rectangular and round-arched openings; machicolated band, rising over round archway on eastern side; machicolated parapet with roll-moulded coping. The tower was located originally to the north-west of the present No.15 dock (not listed, Patterson, p25). (Sources: The Portsmouth Papers: Riley RC: The Evolution of the Docks & Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth: Portsmouth: 1985: 25 ; A Military Heritage: Patterson BH: A History of Portsmouth & -Portsea Town- Fortifications: Portsmouth: 1984: 25,28 ; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974: 59).
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
