GUARD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, WYVERN BARRACKS
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1109979
Date first listed: 08-Jul-1998
Statutory Address: Guard House and attached Wall, Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter
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Location
Statutory Address: Guard House and attached Wall, Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter
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County: Devon
District: Exeter (District Authority)
National Grid Reference: SX 93298 91247
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History
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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
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 469523
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.
End of official listing