GUARD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, WYVERN BARRACKS

Guard House and attached Wall, Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1109979
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: GUARD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, WYVERN BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: Guard House and attached Wall, Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1109979
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: GUARD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, WYVERN BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: Guard House and attached Wall, Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter

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.

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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:: Guard House and attached Wall, Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter

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 93298 91247

Details

SX 9391 871/15/10022

EXETER, TOPSHAM ROAD (North East side), Guard House and attached Wall, Wyvern Barracks

GV II

Formerly known as: Topsham Barracks TOPSHAM ROAD. Stable and guard house, with attached wall, now lock up and store. 1800-1804, for the Ordnance Board, extended late C19-early C20. Flemish bond brick with local red conglomerate base, English bond extension, with a slate hipped roof. PLAN: single-depth former stable with rear extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range, with single storey 2:3-window rear side range. Front 2-storey former stable has small segmental-arched cell lights, with 2 more to the first floor either side of a central 6/6-pane sash in the raised upper section; right-hand return has a cantilevered granite external stair to a first-floor doorway. Lower rear extension has projecting 3-window section fronted by an iron 4-bay verandah with 3 wide segmental-arched metal-framed windows above. INTERIOR: contains original cells with heavy doors. SUBSIDIAR Y FEATURES: attached high brick wall on squared conglomerate stone base enclosed former exercise yard to the SW; with a blocked entrance from the street. HISTORY: shown on mid C19 plan as officers' stable, with the later lock-up an important functional element within the barracks. Part of the former Topsham barracks, the most complete small artillery barracks of the Napoleonic War with France. Included for its historical interest with the Headquarters building and former Royal Artillery Drivers' barracks (qqv). (James Colonel H: Plan of Artillery Barracks Exeter: 1813-1866).

Listing NGR: SX9329891247

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Legacy System number:: 469523
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.