Police Barracks is a Grade II* listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 2016. Barracks. 3 related planning applications.
Police Barracks
- WRENN ID
- dusk-panel-tarn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Constituency
- Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 2016
- Type
- Barracks
- Address
- Police Barracks, PO12 2AB
- OS grid reference
- SZ 618 991
- Coordinates
- 50.78851, -1.12373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The police barracks, built in 1861, is a notable structure designed by the Admiralty Works Department, specifically by Colonel Greene and William Scamp, who is credited as the designer of the guardhouse and police barracks. The brickwork for the building was contracted to Messrs Rigby of London.
Constructed from red brick in Flemish bond with limestone dressings, the police barracks is located just inside the main north-east entrance to the gunboat yard, positioned to the south of the guardhouse. The two buildings were originally designed as approximate mirror images of each other, each roughly square with a central courtyard.
The front elevation of the single-storey police barracks features a colonnade of eight bays, characterized by round arches and square piers. The piers are equipped with dressed stone bases and springers for the arches. A stone band runs along the base of the parapet, while the hipped roofs and chimneystacks, which have brick detailing at their heads, are just visible above. The windows throughout the structure have round or segmental-arch brick heads and stone cills. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Police 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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