Listed Building: HMS NELSON: VICTORY MAIN GATE (1387147)

Formerly known as: HMS Victory QUEEN STREET. Entrance to naval barracks re-using parts from former Portsea Quay Gate. Dated 1902, reused parts 1734. Superintendent Engineer Sir Henry Pilkington RE. Red brick and ashlar. Banded piers with roll-moulded plinths, deep cornices and blocking courses, outer piers with pyramid-on-ball finials. Taller and wider central gateway with flanking pedestrian gateways, all having rusticated round arches. Impost band carried across pedestrian gateways, and moulded cornice with blocking course above them. Central archway flanked by reused attached Ionic columns and with Admiralty crest on keystone which rises into corniced segmental pediment in which is carved and painted royal coat of arms. Central gates have decorative panels with royal cipher and date. HISTORY: formed the formal entrance to the first naval barracks in Portsmouth, and part of a group with the fine officer's quarters opposite (qv).