Listed Building: THE ROYAL RAILWAY SHELTER (BUILDING NUMBER 1/45) (1272292)

Railway shelter. 1888. (ast-iron frame; roof of asphalt on wooden lining. Single-storeyopen-sided structure of 1 x 7 bays. Pillars of cross section, support trussed iron arches spanning double track, and having flat-topped longitudinal braces with twisted iron struts springing from these. Three round-arched louvred dormers with wooden archivolts on each side of roof. Gable finials in form of crowned fouled anchor. On east side, facing quayside, eaves are gableted with curved bargeboards and glass roofs. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: built for the use of the Royal Family visiting the yard, and part of a group with the Royal Station (qv). The shelter was moved to its present location in about 2002. (Sources: The Portsmouth Papers: Riley R(: The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth: Portsmouth: 1985: 25; Evans D: The Buildings of the Steam Navy: 1994: 30). Selected Sources Books and journals Evans, D, The Buildings of the Steam Navy, (1994), 30 Riley, R C, 'The Portsmouth Papers' in The Evolution of the Docks and Industrial Buildings in Portsmouth, (1985), 25