Boundary Railings Approximately 400 Metres to North and East Sides of St George's Barracks Boundary Railings Extending Approximately 400 Metres to North and East Sides of St George's Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1983. Boundary railings. 7 related planning applications.
Boundary Railings Approximately 400 Metres to North and East Sides of St George's Barracks Boundary Railings Extending Approximately 400 Metres to North and East Sides of St George's Barracks
- WRENN ID
- former-attic-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Constituency
- Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1983
- Type
- Boundary railings
- OS grid reference
- SU 617 002
- Coordinates
- 50.79813, -1.12516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boundary railings extend approximately 400 meters to the north and east sides of St George's Barracks in Gosport. These railings date from the 1860s and are made of cast iron with stone kerbs. They feature spear-headed designs with bracketed standards and include well-crafted gates with iron piers formed from connected rings that curve over to an overhead lamp. The double gates are part of a decorative scheme that encloses the southern section of the former infantry barracks. This design is notable as one of the first barracks to adopt a more open layout following the model established at Aldershot, using railings instead of a high wall, which highlights the barracks' function as a transit station rather than a facility for maintaining civil order.
Local climate
Boundary Railings Approximately 400 Metres to North and East Sides of St George's Barracks Boundary Railings Extending Approximately 400 Metres to North and East Sides of St George's Barracks receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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