FORMER RIDING SCHOOL (BUILDING 18) HIGHER BARRACKS

FORMER RIDING SCHOOL (BUILDING 18) HIGHER BARRACKS, HOWELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1109978
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL (BUILDING 18) HIGHER BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL (BUILDING 18) HIGHER BARRACKS, HOWELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1109978
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL (BUILDING 18) HIGHER BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL (BUILDING 18) HIGHER BARRACKS, HOWELL ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL (BUILDING 18) HIGHER BARRACKS, HOWELL ROAD

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County:: Devon
District:: Exeter (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX 92146 93582

Details

SX 9293 EXETER HOWELL ROAD (North side) 871/12/10021 Former riding school (Building 18), Higher Barracks

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Formerly known as: Town Barracks HOWELL ROAD. Riding school, now store. 1794, for the Barrack Department. Flemish bond brick with artificial slate roof Rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: single storey; 5-bay range. Round-arched recesses linked by an impost band, with matching windows with C20 metal glazing bars to the sides, 1-window 5 end has an entrance covered by mid C20 flat-roofed shed, with tripartite C19 window above. INTERIOR: has curved lower walls to protect fallen horse, and is ceiled. HISTORY: riding schools were a typical feature of cavalry barracks for practising drill and manoeuvres, and this is, with that at Dorchester in Dorset (qv), the earliest known example in England. Built as part of the first army bafuck-building campaign in Englaftd, the most complete site of its type. Included as part of a group with the former cavalry barracks (qqv) .

Listing NGR: SX9214693582

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.