Survey Data
Reg No
22502540
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Barracks
In Use As
Telegraph station
Date
1770 - 1800
Coordinates
260277, 112115
Date Recorded
27/06/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached twenty-one-bay three-storey over basement barracks, c.1785, retaining original aspect with nine-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick English bond and lime rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having some sections of replacement uPVC rainwater goods, c.2000. Unpainted rendered walls with unpainted lime rendered walls to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and rendered surrounds. 6/6 timber sash windows with some having wrought iron bars. Square-headed openings to basement with iron panels. Round- (east) and square- (west) headed door openings with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds, keystones, timber panelled doors, and spoked fanlights to round-headed openings. Set back from road in grounds shared with former military barracks complex with gravel grounds to site.
Appraisal
This building, built as part of an extensive military complex on site, is a substantial composition in a functional Classical style with rudimentary detailing. Well maintained, the building retains its original form and character, together with important original salient features and materials. The survival of the building is of great importance as a reminder of the military presence in the locality, further buildings in the complex having been replaced in the late twentieth century.