1451 sheets of drawings of Berwick Barracks, also known as Ravensdowne barracks, and its component and ancillary buildings (including the Main Guard) made between 1906 and 2001, also including a few sheets relating to Berwick upon Tweed's ramparts and fortifications.
The earliest sheets are Ministry of Defence skeleton record plans from 1906. There are Ministry of Works working drawings from 1954 and 1955, Ministry of Public Buildings and Works works services plans from 1964, and a number of Department of the Environment sheets from the early and mid-1970s relating to general maintenance and refurbishment issues.
The vast majority of sheets date from between 1978 and 1991 and relate to renovation of the site and buildings, with numerous drawings by Robbie and Wellwood and Bain, Swan Architects. As well as fabric restoration drawings there are electrical sheets and rot and woodborer treatment specifications.
From 1993 there is a small rectified photographic survey of the Main Guard made by Mason Land Surveys and fifteen sheets relating to its refurbishment made by English Heritage.
There are copies of a survey of rampart approaches made by the Napper Collerton Partnership in 1994, and copies of plans showing fire & intruder protection, electricity supply and drainage, made by Abbey Hanson Rowe in 1998. There are four oversized survey plans from 1996.
The most recent drawings date from the early twenty-first century and comprise a site survey sheet from 2002, four copies of sketch plans from 2001 showing Berwick Museum and Art Gallery, established in the barracks' Clock block, and survey drawings from 2010, with CAD versions from 2012.
This is part of the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans And Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive
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