The Royal Navy Shelter (Building Number 1/450 Portsmouth, England
Listed Building Data
The Royal Navy Shelter (Building Number 1/450 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1272292
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 13 August 1999
- Name
- THE ROYAL NAVY SHELTER (BUILDING NUMBER 1/450
- Location
- THE ROYAL NAVY SHELTER (BUILDING NUMBER 1/450, SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY
- District
- City of Portsmouth
- Grid Reference
- SU 62729 00459
- Easting
- 462728.8600
- Northing
- 100459.2810
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SU 6200 SE SOUTH RAILWAY JETTY HM Naval Base The Royal Railway Shelter (Building No 1/45) 774-1/18/236
GV II
Railway shelter. 1888. (ast-iron frame; roof of asphalt on wooden lining. Single-storeyopen-sided structure of 1 x 7 bays. Pillars of cross section, support trussed iron arches spanning double track, and having flat-topped longitudinal braces with twisted iron struts springing from these. Three round-arched louvred dormers with wooden archivolts on each side of roof. Gable finials in form of crowned fouled anchor. On west side, facing quayside, eaves are gableted with curved bargeboards and glass roofs. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: built for the use of the Royal Family visiting the yard, and part of a group with the Royal Station (qv). (Sources: The Portsmouth Papers: Riley R(: The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth: Portsmouth: 1985: 25; Evans D: The Buildings of the Steam Navy: 1994: 30).
Listing NGR: SU6299200361
