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Fort Monckton is a historic military fort on the south-east shoreline of the Gosport peninsula, Hampshire. Built on the ruins of Haselworth Castle to protect Portsmouth Harbour at the start of the American War of Independence , it was rebuilt in the 1880s as a Palmerston fort .
Feb 7, 2018 · The Former Officers’ Mess is situated on the parade ground at Fort Monckton; a bastioned artillery fort built between 1781 and 1790 to defend the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour. It is one of two early surviving buildings on the parade ground yard; the other is the Former Central Magazine.
Fort Monckton is a bastioned artillery fort built between 1781 and 1790 to defend the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour. It is positioned on the shoreline north-east of Gilkicker Point, which was close to the mouth of the River Alver in the late C18 (the river formerly entered the sea immediately to the west of the fort).
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Former Officers’ Mess, built in about the early C19 with early C20 additions. MATERIALS: Red brick laid in Flemish bond and stone dressings, partly rendered. PLAN: an early C19 rectangular single-storey range adjoined at the north by an early C20 T-shaped single-storey range, together forming a cruciform plan. A lean-to and flat-roofed toilet block...
The Former Officers’ Mess is situated on the parade ground at Fort Monckton; a bastioned artillery fort built between 1781 and 1790 to defend the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour. It is one of two early surviving buildings on the parade ground yard; the other is the Former Central Magazine. The site is a scheduled monument (National Heritag...
The Former Officers’ Mess, built in about the early C19 as part of the bastioned artillery fort of Fort Monckton, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Architectural interest: * As a surviving early C19 barracks building, recorded as a ‘Recreation Room’ in 1892 and as the ‘Officers’ Mess’ in 1919, from a period when permanent b...
Fort Monckton is situated on the shoreline north-east of Gilkicker Point at Gosport. It originally defended the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour. The ramparts forming the main enclosure or enceinte are built to a broadly triangular plan with three bastions at the main apexes flanking curtain walls, as well as an additional pair of ...
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Fort Monckton was constructed in the 1780s on the site of a former fort known as ‘The Fort at Gilkicker’. This site was formerly occupied by the castle of Hasilworth (Hasleworth), which was dismantled during the reign of Mary Tudor.
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Fort Monckton is a historic military fort on the eastern end of Stokes Bay. Built to protect Portsmouth harbour at the start of the American War of In...
