Listed Building: HMS NELSON: BARHAM (BUILDING NUMBER 82) (1387139)

Formerly known as: HMS Victory QUEEN STREET. Naval depot offices. 1899-1903; later alterations and additions. By and for the Admiralty, Superintendent Engineer Colonel Sir Henry Pilkington RE. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with tall, corniced chimneys. Georgian Revival style. PLAN: H-shaped plan, with right-hand (east) wing projecting further at rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Chamfered ashlar plinth; ashlar sill and impost bands and deep moulded eaves cornice. Windows have 17-pane sashes in reveals with brick apron panels, thin moulded stone sills, and segmental brick arches with tripartite ashlar keystones. Dated heads to rainwater pipes. West elevation (left-hand wing of bock): 5 bays arranged 2:1:2 the centre projecting under pedimented gable and with entrance: panelled double door with 3-pane overlight fronted by Doric columned portico, the columns on tall plinth and supporting hooded arch, above which ashlar panel rises to form pilastered architrave to paired sashes; narrow side-lights on ground floor. Over door, cast metal plaque with Marlborough Coat of Arms. Set back on left, west elevation of east wing has 3 lower bays on left (north), cross-windows to right (south section) and columned cupola on ridge; mid C20 block of one storey added in front (on west side). South elevation: 2:4:2 bays, the end sections being the gable ends of the cross-wings and each having a console bracketed external gable chimney. Wood-columned cupola at centre of roof. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: part of the first barracks for sailors in England, built to similar plans and designs at Devonport, Chatham and Portsmouth. The latter incorporated parts of Anglesey barracks. (Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 82). Selected Sources Books and journals Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 82