Administrative Offices to former Camp Hill Prison, Camp Hill, Parkhurst
Listed grade: Grade 2
Year listed: 2015
Description: The Administrative Offices at Camp Hill Prison, circa 1912, are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: one of the three most architecturally ambitious buildings within the perimeter walls;
* Rarity: Camp Hill was the only Preventive Detention prison to be specially constructed and the form of this building, with verandahs on three sides, more like a large domestic building than an institutional building, represents the type of penal system being enforced, which was unique nationally;
* Intactness: the exterior is unaltered;
* Group value: the building possesses group value with the Gate House and former chapel, also part of the former prison complex.
(Details from https://historicengland.org.uk/)
