Former North Guard House and Attached Wall to North West, Fenham Barracks
FORMER NORTH GUARD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL TO NORTH WEST, FENHAM BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024950
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Former North Guard House and Attached Wall to North West, Fenham Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER NORTH GUARD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL TO NORTH WEST, FENHAM BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024950
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former North Guard House and Attached Wall to North West, Fenham Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER NORTH GUARD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL TO NORTH WEST, FENHAM BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER NORTH GUARD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL TO NORTH WEST, FENHAM BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23645 64992
Details
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NZ 26 NW
BARRACK ROAD
(North East side)
1833/8/80
Former N guard house and attached wall to north-west, Fenham Barracks
17.12.71
GV II
Barrack guard house and office, later restaurant, disused at time of inspection. 1804-06, by James Wyatt, Surveyor General to the Ordnance Board, restaurant 1970-90. Brown sandstone ashlar guard house with ashlar gable stacks, rear brick block, with slate hipped and gabled roof. Single-depth plan with offices to the left. EXTERIOR: Single storey; windowless street front, 9-window rear office elevation. Guard house gable has a coped pediment with raised comer blocks, a central raised round-headed niche in a blind recess beneath an overhanging blind oriel on moulded stone brackets, rising to the top of the pediment, and containing 3 rifle slots beneath a blind lunette; 4 courses from the ground the quoins are replaced by wide cast-iron blocks. To the left a coped wall with flat-headed opening and rusticated pier to former barracks entrance; Brick block has flat-headed openings, boarded at time of survey (1994). INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached former barracks wall with flat coping, forming the front wall to the office, extends approximately 100m to the north-west. HISTORY: The Ordnance Board were responsible for Artillery barracks during the Napoleonic War. One of a pair of striking and unusual guard houses to Fenham Artillery Barracks, connected by a late C20 glazed archway to the gateway (not of special interest), and part of a group with the former sergeants' messes (qqv). (Mackenzie: History of Newcastle: 1827-: 710; Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series: Breihan J: Army Barracks in the NE in the Era of the French Revolution: 1990-: 171).
Listing NGR: NZ2364564992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mackenzie, E, History of Newcastle, (1827), 710
Breihan, J, Archaeologia Aeliana in Army Barracks in the NE in the Era of the French Revolution, (1990), 171
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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