Former Pay Office (Building Number 1/11) Portsmouth, England
Listed Building Data
Former Pay Office (Building Number 1/11) 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1244597
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 13 August 1999
- Name
- FORMER PAY OFFICE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/11)
- Location
- FORMER PAY OFFICE (BUILDING NUMBER 1/11), COLLEGE ROAD
- District
- City of Portsmouth
- Grid Reference
- SU 63092 00403
- Easting
- 463091.7550
- Northing
- 100402.6630
Listed Building Description
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SU 6300 SW COLLEGE ROAD (South side) HM Naval Base 774-1/30/197 Former Pay Office (Building No. 1/11)
GV II
Former pay office. Reputed to be 1798 by Sir Samuel Bentham (Lloyd 1974); C19 addition; bomb-damaged c1940 and subsequently rebuilt. Grey brick in header bond with dressings of red brick and ashlar. Concealed roof. EXTERIOR: formerly 2 storeys, now one. North elevation: 4 surviving bays, building originally extending further to left. Plinth. 4 round archways, the 3 on right closely spaced and containing sashes with glazing bars (radial in the heads of the 2 left-hand windows) and with ashlar sills. Archway on left has C20 part-glazed door and fanlight. All linked by impost band and having keystones rising into 1st-floor band. Traces of former 1st-floor windows, the wall now forming parapet. Rear: much C19 and C20 graffiti. Right return: C 19 single-storey lean-to wooden addition having wooden columns and windows between. INTERIOR: in the 2 right-hand bays, wall pilasters and a central row of cast-iron columns in the form of shafted columns with pronounced entasis support quadripartite brick vaults. Strong-room with safe. Door and windows on north front have wooden architraves and panelled reveals. HISTORY: believed to be one of the earliest examples of a fire-proof building (with iron columns and brick vaults) in the south of England. (Sources: The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd D: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1985: 411-412 ; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974: 70).
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
