Former Hospital (Building 5) Higher Barracks
FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 5) HIGHER BARRACKS, HOWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109977
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Hospital (Building 5) Higher Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 5) HIGHER BARRACKS, HOWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109977
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Hospital (Building 5) Higher Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 5) HIGHER BARRACKS, HOWELL ROAD
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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:
- FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 5) HIGHER BARRACKS, HOWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92120 93380
Details
SX 9293 EXETER HOWELL ROAD
(North side)
871/12/10020
Former hospital, (Building 5),
Higher Barracks
GV II
Formerly known as: Town Barracks HOWELL ROAD.
Hospital, now offices. 1794, for the Barrack Department, extended and altered mid-late C 19. Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 9-window range. Front range has a central doorway and rubbed brick flat arches to 6/6-pane sashes each side; left-hand return has a shallow pediment with brick dentil cornice and a louvred oculus, over a 3-window range with blind windows to the front and horned 6/6-pane sashes. A square late C19 2-storey sanitary tower with plat band is attached to the rear left-hand corner by an angled stem with a front entrance. INTERIOR: the ground-floor is divided by a transverse wall with a round arch through, 2 heated first-floor rooms, with a central dogleg stair. HISTORY: originally with 6 wards, a surgery, kitchen, and mortuary to rear, the rear tower is a characteristic mid C19 improvement. One of only three regimental hospitals known to have survived from this period.
Part of the least altered example of the cavalry bat:racks built as part of the first army barrack-building campaign in England, at the start of the Revolutionary War with France.
Listing NGR: SX9212093380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469521
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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