Ancillary Centre, St Vincent School is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1971. Ancillary centre.

Ancillary Centre, St Vincent School

WRENN ID
fading-rubble-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gosport
Constituency
Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1971
Type
Ancillary centre
Address
Ancillary Centre, St Vincent School, Forton Road
OS grid reference
SU 610 005
Coordinates
50.80162, -1.13487
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ancillary Centre at St Vincent School, originally built as a barracks gymnasium and fives court in 1847 by Captain H James of the Royal Engineers, now serves as a college function room. Constructed from brick featuring black headers and rubbed brick headers, it has a slate hipped roof and a single-depth plan. The building is two storeys tall and has a three-window range. Its symmetrical front is topped with a parapet and includes a round-arched doorway with mid-20th century double doors, flat-arched 3/3-pane sash windows on either side, and three round-arched 6/6-pane sash windows on the first floor. Inside, the former fives court boasts a metal trussed roof supported by decorative curved brackets. This structure was part of HMS Vincent, a significant Royal Marines barracks, where the fives court was a traditional feature.

Local climate

Ancillary Centre, St Vincent School 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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