Guardroom, Christchurch Barracks
GUARDROOM, CHRISTCHURCH BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108216
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Guardroom, Christchurch Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- GUARDROOM, CHRISTCHURCH BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108216
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Guardroom, Christchurch Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUARDROOM, CHRISTCHURCH BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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:
- GUARDROOM, CHRISTCHURCH BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Christchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 14726 93363
Details
SZ1493 BARRACK ROAD (South West Side) 748/4/245 Guardroom, Christchurch Barracks
12.02.1976 II
Guard house. Mid C19. Red Flemish bond brick with black headers, tiled hipped roof. Single-depth, T-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: single storey; 5-window range. Symmetrical front with red rubbed brick headers to central doorway with 6-panel door, and horned 6/6-pane sashes and 5-bay verandah with cast-iron posts; square timber clock tower has a bellcote on top with open round arches and veather vane. Paired windows to right-hand side, and a round-arched doorway in the rear of front section with half-glazed door. INTERIOR: plain without special features. HISTORY: clock towers typically formed barracks entrances in the mid C19, see also Horseshoe barracks, Southend (qv). Christchurch was built c1792 as a cavalry barracks, became an Artillery and Engineers' barracks, and was partly rebuilt as part of the 1870s Cardwell reforms. Part of a group with the former cavalry barrack block (qv). (SAVE Britain's Heritage: Deserted Bastions, Historic Naval and Military Architecture: London: 1993-: 133; Bournemouth Local Sudies Publications: Baker J: Christchurch Barracks: Bournemouth: 1984-: NO 674).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101402
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
SAVE Britains Heritage, , Deserted Bastions, (1993)
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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