Guard House is a Grade II* listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 2016. Guard house. 1 related planning application.
Guard House
- WRENN ID
- carved-chapel-hemlock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Constituency
- Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 2016
- Type
- Guard house
- OS grid reference
- SZ 618 991
- Coordinates
- 50.78875, -1.1241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guard House, built in 1861, is a significant structure located at the main north-east entrance to the gunboat yard. The design was created by the Admiralty Works Department, led by Colonel Greene and William Scamp, who specifically designed the guard house and police barracks. The brickwork was contracted to Messrs Rigby of London.
Constructed from red brick laid in Flemish bond, the building features limestone dressings. The guard house and police barracks were originally designed as mirror images of each other, each roughly square with a central courtyard.
The exterior of the single-storey guard house includes a colonnade of eight bays with round arches supported by square piers. The piers have dressed stone bases and springers for the arches, and there is a stone band at the base of the parapet. The hipped roofs and chimneystacks, which have brick detailing at their heads, are partially visible. The windows around the building feature round or segmental-arch brick heads and stone cills. Notably, six of the colonnade archways on the northern block have been infilled with brick and small windows as part of a later modification.
The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Guard House 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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