(05) Gosport Borough Council

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Alverbank Hotel (Alver House)

Alver House was the Summer residence of John Croker, built around 1840 overlooking Stokes Bay with gardens bounded by trees and a walled garden. Land and the walled garden became part of Stanley Park in the 1940s. The remaining grounds provide a setting for the Gr II listed house, that is now a hotel.
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HCC Site ID:	1816	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	House LB II	Area:
Access:	Access to Hotel	Ownership:	Private commercial

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Anglesey Lodge Care Home (Anglesey Lodge)

The Lodge is a stucco faced listed villa (Grade II) built sometime in the 1830-40s. South of the villa some of the layout and planting of the early 19th century villa garden remains providing a setting for the listed building. It is now a care home.
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HCC Site ID:	1927	Parish:
Designations:	Lodge LB II	Area:	n/k
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Hampshire County Council

Site to be researched – click the name above re Grade II listing

Ann's Hill Cemetery

A mid-19th century cemetery, chapels and a lodge designed by Thomas Ellis Owen that was extended in 1887 with a further extension at the end of the century to the west side of St Ann’s Hill Road where a war memorial cross was erected after the 1st world war. The war graves are managed by the War Graves Commission.
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HCC Site ID:	1828	Parish:
Designations:	Chapel – local listing	Area:	n/k
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Bastion No 1

Bastion No 1 is a rare survivor of a 1802 military rampart that formed defences to Portsmouth harbour. In 1840, sluice gates were constructed to allow water to remain in the moat at low tide. Since the local council acquired the land from the MOD in 1955 a number of renovations have taken place, and it has become an historically important and popular public open space.
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HCC Site ID:	1747	Parish:
Designations:	CA, LP , SMR I	Area:	n/k
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Bay House School (Bay House)

Bay House is a Grade II Gothic-style house designed by Decimus Burton in 1838-40 for Alexander Baring as a Summer residence. Large woodland reputedly designed by Joseph Paxton in extensive grounds. 17 acres, including the woodland donated in 1944 to Gosport by Lt-Col Sloane Stanley to form Stanley Park. Bay House now a Gosport Academy, with grounds mainly built over.
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HCC Site ID:	1748	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	House and Lodge LB II	Area:
Access:	Access to School	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Clayhall Royal Naval Cemetery (Historic England)

Clayhall Royal Naval Cemetery, 1859, is registered for the following principal reasons: Historic interest: for its place in the development of Haslar as the earliest facility for the health and welfare of naval personnel, and within the wider landscape of Gosport and Portsmouth, one of the most significant sites in English naval history; Landscape design interest: a restrained design focussing attention on the grave markers and memorials; * Funerary monuments: a varied collection of individual graves and groups of uniform headstones, including an unusual group with bronze plaques, and a rare enclosed Turkish burial ground; * Group value: with the listed cemetery chapel and commemorative monuments, and with the numerous highly-graded listed naval structures in the wider vicinity.
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HCC Site ID:	1833	Parish:
Designations:	CA, LP, Chapel LB II	Area:	n/k
Access:	Public Access – check opening times	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Crescent Gardens Alverstoke

HCC Summary: Ornamental garden created in 1826 as part of Anglesey Ville. By 1949 become a wilderness, handed to Gosport Borough Council as public open space. In 1989 renovation was started and friends formed in 1991.
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HCC Site ID:	1746	Parish:	Alverstoke
Designations:		Area:	1.36 acres
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Falkland Gardens, The (The Esplanade)

Falklands Gardens are a 1920s public park that has retained its central circular fountain and radiating paths, with some additions and modifications around the periphery. It provides an amenity for ferry passengers and a splendid place to watch the traffic through and around Portsmouth Harbour. The additional promenade to Trinity Green Time-Space and Walpole Park provides an added attraction and a very pleasant walk.
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HCC Site ID:	1749	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:		Area:	Small
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Foster Gardens

Foster Gardens are an excellent and intact example of a 1930’s designed ‘pocket park’ with a central pond and pergolas, annual bedding, ornamental planting and mature boundary trees.
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HCC Site ID:	1745	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:		Area:	0.4 ha
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Gosport Park

Gosport Park is a valuable and well-used park dominated by well-maintained formal recreation provision and amenity grassland. Its original design features have been much diluted. The park feels a safe place but the aspect is bleak with very little visual interest apart from the views out of the park. The shoreline, potentially an asset to the park, is uninteresting.
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HCC Site ID:	1750	Parish:
Designations:		Area:	9.5 ha
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Grove Road Recreation Ground

Grove Road Recreation Ground is an extremely flat and exposed park apparently created from an ex landfill site. Play area, seats, good views over the estuary to Forton Lake.
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HCC Site ID:	1753	Parish:
Designations:		Area:	4.7ha
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

Site to be researched; for more details of the equipment of the park, click the name above, and then the linke to the Gosport Borough Park website

Hermitage Wildlife Garden, The

Hermitage Wildlife Garden was the garden of Victorian Hermitage House, and possibly the site of much earlier building. In 1996 it was saved from development and turned into a wildlife haven by local residents with the remains of a C19 Folly, pond, paths, seats, wildflowers and an abundance of wildlife.
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HCC Site ID:	1752	Parish:
Designations:	n/k	Area:	n/k
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Lee-on-Solent Memorial Garden

Lee-on-Solent Memorial Garden is a sea front sunken remembrance garden to commemorate those fallen from the area in two world wars.
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HCC Site ID:	1981	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:		Area:	0.04 ha
Access:	Public access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Priddy's Hard

Priddy’s Hard was the site of Officer’s houses c1786 that were demolished in 1952. Early maps show gardens to the rear of the houses for fruit, vegetables and flowers; formal lawns and paths were at the front. There were views across Forton Lake. Side gardens formed a green belt between the Ramparts and Grand Magazine (museum LB I). The site has now been developed.
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HCC Site ID:	1761	Parish:	Elson (E)
Designations:	CA, AHBR	Area:
Access:	Public Access to Explosion Museum	Ownership:	n/k

Site to be researched, click the name above to access information on the developement of the site

Privett Gardens

Privett Gardens were establised in a 1930s housing development with grassed areas, a mound and some mature tree and shrub boundaries with a central display area, originally planted with roses, now with shrubs and four large yews. In 2013 it was a small, well-maintained park, frequently used or passed through by residents.
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HCC Site ID:	1754	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:		Area:	1.6 ha
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Rowner Walk

Rowner Walk is an important recreational facility for local residents in a heavily built up area.
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HCC Site ID:	1755	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	CA, SINC	Area:	25.4 ha
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

Site to be researched

Royal Clarence Yard, Flagstaff Green

HCC Summary: Officers houses c1832 LB II; c1870 map shows mature gardens to rear, 4 distinct areas for Officers use, paths, trees and lawns, now overgrown. Oval gardens in front of ceremonial gateway contains old Privet tree; site developed; gardens included in new landscaping.
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HCC Site ID:	1760	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	CA, AHBR, LP	Area:
Access:	Historic site	Ownership:	n/k

Site to be researched, click the name above for a link to the development of the area.

Royal Haslar Hospital, The (Historic England)

HE Summary: The grounds of the first large naval hospital, opened in 1753 and completed in 1762, which was influential in Britain and Europe. The strongly axial design was further developed during the C19, including the addition of enclosed airing-court gardens overlooking the Solent to the south-east, and a separate isolation hospital set in its own grounds. The Hospital closed in 2009.
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HCC Site ID:	1751	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	HE Grade II, Various buildings LB II	Area:	23 ha
Access:	No public access	Ownership:	Our Enterprise

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Spring Gardens

HCC Summary: Site of early nineteenth century pleasure garden.
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HCC Site ID:	1929	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:		Area:
Access:	Historic site	Ownership:	n/k

Site to be researched

St Georges Barracks North

HCC Summary: Officer’s Barracks 1858 LB II; 1874 OS map shows simple garden layout, paths, trees and lawns linking space to Ramparts. 1933 OS map shows new path across lawn, arches and box hedging. 2002 Barracks restored to residential use; landscape design to keep original design.
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HCC Site ID:	1814	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	CA, SAM, LP	Area:
Access:	No Public Access	Ownership:	Military site

Site to be researched

Stanley Park

A popular public park created in the mid-20th century from former 19th century parkland of Bay House designed by Decimus Burton, and built in 1840 for the First Lord Ashburton. The park includes some land and the walled garden from adjoining Alver House.
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HCC Site ID:	1756	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	House and Lodge LB II	Area:	ha
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	School – Gosport Borough Council

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Stokes Bay

HCC Summary: Military defences built 1860’s included Stokes Bay Lines’ and Battery No 2. 1955 bought by Local Council; 1960’s moat filled in and grassed over, tennis courts and putting green laid – used as public open space.
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HCC Site ID:	1815	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	AHBR, SINC, SSSI	Area:
Access:	Public access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

Site to be researched

Stokesmead Field

Stokesmead Field is a high value open space due to its waterside location, is an important feature of the Anglesey Conservation Area and provides a setting for a number of important buildings in the adjoining Alverstoke Conservation Area
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HCC Site ID:	1757	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	CA	Area:
Access:	Public access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

Site to be researched

Trinity Green and Trinity Green Time Space

A mid-C18 churchyard now forms an open space surrounding Trinity Green Church that was redesigned in the C19. This Green & the Time Space now provide the link & central features in a millennium development.
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HCC Site ID:	1758	Parish:
Designations:		Area:	c 2 ha
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Walpole Park

HCC Summary: A late C19 urban park that has been reduced in size & now divided into two sections by a road. Since the millennium, a route-way linking Trinity Green, Trinity Green Time Space, the esplanade path, ferry terminal & Falkland Gardens.
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HCC Site ID:	1759	Parish:
Designations:		Area:	c 11 ha
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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