Building MPM779 - BUILDING NUMBER 47 (THE ROYAL MARINES INFIRMARY)

Naval ordnance storehouse, including part of former outer wall with attached ancillary building; used as infirmary by 1865; disused. c1814, for the Board of Ordnance, with later alterations. Armaments and ordnance stores were held here while ships were in Ordinary in Portsmouth. Probably built as part of the same programme as Vulcan block, the main store house, with its characteristic brickwork, as part of the New Gun Wharf extension to the Yard (1770s). The brickwork is found at contemporary local Ordnance sites including Priddy's Hard. Used as an infirmary in the mid-19th century. Forms part of the very significant historic dockyard complex at Portsmouth, as well as being a little altered Ordnance store with much original internal detail. Forms part of a good group with the Vulcan block and former naval offices.