KEEP AT FORMER WELLESLEY BARRACKS

KEEP AT FORMER WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246201
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:: KEEP AT FORMER WELLESLEY BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: KEEP AT FORMER WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246201
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-2001
List Entry Name:: KEEP AT FORMER WELLESLEY BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: KEEP AT FORMER WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: KEEP AT FORMER WELLESLEY BARRACKS, GIBBET STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE0714025181

Details

SE 02 NE 679/4/10286 23-JAN-01

GIBBET STREET (North,off) Keep at former Wellesley Barracks

GV II

Armoury, guard house and store, disused. 1875. Designed by Royal Engineer's architect. Coursed dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Lateral stacks and asphalt roof. Castellated Gothic Revival style. PLAN: square, with ground-floor guard room and detention cells, corner stairs, stores on upper floors. EXTERIOR: 3 storey, 3 window range. A regular, square block with opposite square stair towers rising above the roof, other 2 corners chamfered with raised parapets, with ashlar cill and lintel bands, dentil eaves and crenellated parapet. Battered ground floor to a weathered band, narrow metal-framed windows with stone lintels, stepped in threes to the stair tower. INTERIOR: not inspected, but noted as having a fire-proof construction of iron columns to jack arches and stone open well stairs, and a standard plan with guard house, cells and various stores. HISTORY: the keep was a secure armoury, store guard house and lock-up, the characteristic building of the local depot. The building formed part of the Cardwell reforms, which redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections. And assist recruitment. As such, the keep raised the local profile of the barracks, and provided an emblematic focus for the regiment. Only ten examples survive, that at Brock also part of the two most complete. Bodmin (qv) and Reading (qv).

Listing NGR: SE0714025181

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Legacy System number:: 487425
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.