Whitley Rooms (Building Number 1/138) And Bollard At North East Corner

SU 6300 NW VICTORIA ROAD (South side) HM Naval Base 774-1/29/249 Whitley Rooms (Building No 1/138) and bollard at NE corner

GV II

Alternatively known as: Ivy Lane Cottage, HM NAVAL BASE Dockyard gatehouse, now office. 1857 (Property Register). Red brick in English bond with ashlar and replacement concrete dressings, and gauged red-brick arches to openings. Concealed hipped slate roof with rendered stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 bays x 3 on west elevation, 4 on east elevation. Plinth; round-arched openings and impost band to ground floor; flat- arched windows with replacement 12-pane sashes, and sill band on 1st floor; stepped dentilled eaves below cornice with blocking course. North elevation has blind windows, and door on left; south elevation a blocked, original, flat-arched doorway on left with blind window over; west elevation a door on left and inserted door between right-hand windows. At north-east corner is a cannon barrel of probably early-mid C19 date, reused as bollard probably mid-late C19 by setting barrel on end. INTERIOR: 2 blocked tall round archways in spine wall; closed-string stair with stick balusters and bulbous columnar newels. HISTORY: originally there were cells along the west side. The building adjoins the dockyard wall (qv), and served as a gatehouse to Marlborough Gate until the gateway was moved to the south. (Source: HM Naval Base Portsmouth: Property Register).

Listing NGR: SU6299200361