Listed Building: FORMER HOSPITAL AND ANCILLIARY BUILDINGS, FORT CUMBERLAND (1104275)

Former hospital and ancillary buildings, now unoccupied. c1746, C19 and early C20 extensions. Red brick in Flemish and Stretcher bond, timber boarding. Tripartite plain tiled roof to centre part, north wing has composition sheet flat roof, re-roofing in progress to south wing. Brick stacks, 3 in line to left of centre part and 1 at centre of south wing. EXTERIOR: 1 storey. At middle of centre part is a bricked up former entrance with late C20 projecting stack at front. On each side is a 12-pane sash with round-headed timber panel set under gauged brick round arch, stone sill, rendered band and 3 rendered facing coped gables, round-headed recess at centre of each gable. Left wing has a 12-pane sash set under cambered brick arch, stone coped parapet. On far right the later boarded wing with facing gable has on left a 2-leaf boarded door and on right two 12-pane sashes each set under flat timber arch, 2 S-shape iron ties at centre of gable. Rear elevation has a flat roofed wing attached to the rear of the taller centre part which has 3 facing gables similar to front, but in brickwork. To left is an early C20 extension attached to the timber boarded wing with two 24-pane metal casements and on right boarded door, each set under flat concrete lintel. On right are two 8-pane casements and further right 4 boarded doors each set under brick cambered arch. INTERIOR not inspected. (Balfour A: Portsmouth: London: 1970-: 22; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 62; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 428). Selected Sources Books and journals Balfour, A, Portsmouth, (1970), 22 Lloyd, D W , Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 62 Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 428