(05) Gosport Borough Council

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Alverbank Hotel

HCC Summary: The house built 1840 with gardens bounded by trees & a walled garden. Land & the walled garden became part of Stanley Park in the 1940s. The remaining grounds & Gr II listed house, are 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 (now Anglesey Lodge Care Home)

HCC Summary: House stucco faced villa c.1830-40 LB II. Some of the layout and planting of the early C19 villa garden remains.
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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

Cemetery on the east side of Ann’s Road was laid out in 1834; extended on the west side in 1899 with a further extension in the 1920s
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HCC Site ID:	1828	Parish:
Designations:		Area:	n/k
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Bastion No 1

HCC Summary: Unique example of urban fortifications; part of ‘Gosport Lines’ to protect town and harbour; includes Ramparts built 1802, sluice gate, moat, caponier, railings, gate, raised walk around gun positions, and mature trees; major restoration 1979.
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HCC Site ID:	1747	Parish:
Designations:	CA, LP I	Area:	n/k
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Bay House School

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)

The 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

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

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

HCC Summary: 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

HCC Summary: Piece of land belonging to Victorian house; site of much earlier building; orchard, mature trees including 4 oak trees with TPO; remains of C19 Folly, 1996 saved from development, turned into wildlife haven by local residents pond, paths, seats, wildflowers and 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

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

HCC Summary: Officer’s houses c1786; demolished 1952. Early maps show gardens to rear for fruit, vegetables and flowers; formal lawns and paths to front; views across Forton Lake. Side gardens form green belt between Ramparts and Grand Magazine (museum LB I). Lawns and trees survive; site has 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

1930s gardens 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. Currently it is a small, well-maintained park, frequently used or passed through by residents.
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HCC Site ID:	1754	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:		Area:
Access:	Public Access	Ownership:	Gosport Borough Council

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Rowner Walk

HCC Summary: Linear park of mixed use including a woodland section, former parkland trees (oaks), cricket and football provision and areas of more recent urban open space designed as part of 1930s-60s housing.
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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

HCC Summary:Probably a sheltered Saxon harbour, silted up c1800; National Children’s home playing field from 1888-1984 followed by plans to build on part of the site. Below ground foundations of 24 metre high Seamark or NavigationalTower constructed in 1643 by Lord High Admiral, the Earl of Warwick demolished in 1965.
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HCC Site ID:	1757	Parish:	Gosport
Designations:	CA	Area:
Access:	Historic site	Ownership:	Military site

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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