Wall, Gates And Lodges To Former Royal Marines School Of Music, East Barracks

This listing describes a pair of entrance lodges, gates, and perimeter walls that date from around 1813, designed by Edward Holl, who was the architect for the Navy Board. The structures are made of yellow stock bricks and feature rubbed brick heads, hipped slate roofs, stone dressings, and iron gates. The rectangular lodges are single-storey and face each other across the inner side of the gateway. Each lodge has a five-window range with rubbed brick flat arches over 6/6-pane sash windows and end doorways that have flush four-panel doors.

The gateway includes openwork iron piers decorated with anchors and telescopes, along with swept gates and wickets on either side, which are flanked by short lengths of railing topped with spear finials. The gateway is supported by plain brick piers and a coped wall with interval piers. The walls extend for approximately 200 meters on either side of the gateway, running parallel to the front of the Royal School of Music, which was formerly a naval hospital, and encloses the forecourt of the Royal School of Music.