Former Gymnasium At St Vincent Centre

The following buildings shall be added to the list:-

GOSPORT MILL LANE SU 60 SW (east side, off) 2/150 Former gymnasium at St Vincent Centre GV II Training building at former Royal Marine Barracks. Mid-late C19, of 2 builds. Red brick in English bond, added part of red brick in Flemish bond; ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof, added part with replacement felting. One storey. Main building, gable-end on, of 3 x 4 bays, truncated at rear by added block, 1 bay deep and 4 bays wide. Gable end: chamfered plinth; pilasters near each end; corners offset at eaves. Centre bay projects slightly and has: steps up to full-width entrance with late C20 board doors, cyma-moulded stone imposts, and concreted lintel; lunette above with gauged brick arch, tripartite keystone and small-pane tripartite window. Stepped gable with moulded stone coping. Right return: alternate bays are narrower and have blind recesses with chamfered bases and stepped tops; end recesses are narrower, that on left with concrete step up to iron-hinged metal door with concrete lintel. Windows: 2 on left have segmental brick arches, raised brick keystones and paired 2-light 4-pane casements; 3rd and 4th windows wider, of 3 similar casements, with stone imposts and evidence of former shutter holders above and below; all but 4th window have metal frames. Glazed clerestory to ridge. Left return: similar, but with only 3 recesses and formerly 2 wide window openings, these partly bricked up and each now with 3 small-pane wooden windows; stone imposts; wooden shutter holder above windows and brackets from former lower shutter holder below. Rear addition: each bay of end and return elevations has a round-arched recess containing similarly-arched opening and all with stone sills, gauged brighter-red brick arches, and impost band. End elevation: on right, 4 stone steps up to former doorway, now bricked up; other recesses have windows, now boarded up and the 2nd with late C20 door up steps. Coped parapet. Hipped roof with stacks near ends of ridge. Interior: cambered board floor, with some concrete insets; kick board along side walls; round-edged sills and steel lintels to windows; diagonally-boarded roof with braced steel trusses; hinged louvres at base of clerestory. 3 doorways into addition, set approximately 1 metre above floor level and with stone sills. Small former strong room in front right corner. The building, with its cambered floor, may have been used as a gun training deck, but it is dissimilar to the known gun training deck at Plymouth.

Listing NGR: SU6117300390