Royal Citadel Married Quarters and Sergeants Quarters
ROYAL CITADEL MARRIED QUARTERS AND SERGEANTS QUARTERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067148
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Citadel Married Quarters and Sergeants Quarters
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL CITADEL MARRIED QUARTERS AND SERGEANTS QUARTERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067148
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Citadel Married Quarters and Sergeants Quarters
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL CITADEL MARRIED QUARTERS AND SERGEANTS QUARTERS
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.
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:
- ROYAL CITADEL MARRIED QUARTERS AND SERGEANTS QUARTERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4798353824
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4653 THE BARBICAN
740-1/66/876 Royal Citadel: Married Quarters and
08/07/98 Sergeants' Quarters
GV II
Married quarters and sergeants' quarters at fort. 1895-1900,
probably by T Rogers Kitsell, architect for the War Office.
Dressed Plymouth limestone brought to course, rendered at
rear; dry slate roof with 4 cross wing roofs, all with coped
gables; wide roof dormers, in pairs between the cross wings;
dressed stone axial stacks with moulded entablature.
PLAN: long rectangular double-depth plan plus 4 cross wings
projecting at the front.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey cross wings and 2 storeys (part over
basements) plus attics; the overall 12-window range front
consisting of 4 symmetrical 3-bay fronts each with a central
projecting cross wing as entrance porch. The cross wings have
3-light mullioned windows, the other windows are horned
sashes. The 4-centred arched doorways small have flanking
sidelights.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: a garrison was based at the Citadel from the late
C17. The old quarters were rebuilt under the 1890 Barracks
Act, and they are, with the Peninsula barracks in Winchester,
a rare example of an architect-designed barracks. Married
quarters were included in barracks from the 1860s, but this
is, with those at Hounslow in Greater London, a good example
forming part of a complete complex.
(The Builder: Kitsell TR: Plymouth Citadel - new barracks and
recreation block: London: 1898-: 104-105; Woodward FW:
Citadel: Devon: 1987-; Saunders A: Fortress Britain:
Portsmouth: 1989-).
Listing NGR: SX4798353824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473148
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Woodward, F W, Citadel, (1987)
Saunders, A D, Fortress Britain, (1989)
Kitsell, T R, The Builder in Plymouth Citadel New Barracks and Recreation Block, (1898), 104-105
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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