Gate house to former Camp Hill Prison

Prison gate house of circa 1912. The interior does not possess special interest.

MATERIALS: built of concrete blocks reported to have been manufactured by prisoners at nearby Parkhurst Prison.

PLAN: curved north-east entrance front leading to unequal-sized single storey blocks behind with verandahs.

EXTERIOR: the north-east front has a curved wall set in a corner of the perimeter wall. In the centre is a carriage entrance with wooden double doors, with iron railings at the top with a cornice above, flanked by protruding taller piers with moulded cornices surmounted by ball finials on plinths. A later pedestrian entrance has been added on the left-hand side. The ends have identical piers.

The south-west side has a tall projecting central entrance with a moulded cornice and an elliptical carriage arch with iron gates and splayed sides. Both splays have a pedestrian entrance with cast iron grilles with scroll and circle decoration.

The internal courtyard has single-storey rooms behind projecting verandahs with four elliptical arches supported on tapering square columns with moulded capitals and plinths.

INTERIOR: no original fittings remain. Pursuant to s1 (5) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 ('the Act') it is declared that the modern interior and late C20 prisoners murals, are not of special architectural or historic interest.