Former North West Gunners Barracks (Building 11) Wyvern Barracks
Former North West Gunners' Barracks (Building 11), Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109980
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former North West Gunners Barracks (Building 11) Wyvern Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- Former North West Gunners' Barracks (Building 11), Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109980
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former North West Gunners Barracks (Building 11) Wyvern Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former North West Gunners' Barracks (Building 11), Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter
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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 North West Gunners' Barracks (Building 11), 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 93316 91230
Details
SX 9391
871/15/10025
EXETER,
TOPSHAM ROAD (North side),
Former NW Gunners' Barracks (Building 11), Wyvern Barracks
GV II
Formerly known as: Topsham barracks TOPSHAM ROAD.
Artillery gunners' barracks, now barracks and offices. 1806, by James Wyatt for the Ordnance Board. Rendered brick with slate hipped roof Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 7 -window range. Plain inner front to the former square with a doorway 3 windows from the W end with a plate-glass overlight and C20 door; 6/6-pane ground-floor and 8/8-pane first-floor sashes, earlier ones without horns; outer side similar. The brick inner return to the former main entrance has a central doorway with sashes either side and above and a C20 verandah. INTERIOR: altered mid C20; a dogleg stair leads from the entrance. HISTORY: one of a pair of barracks for RA gunner/drivers, with Building 1 (qv), which formed the S perimeter to the former Artillery barracks. Originally L-shaped with the officers' section flanking the entrance, now demolished. Although altered, included as part of the most complete small artillery barracks of the Napoleonic War, defining with the former Officers' range opposite (qv) the central parade square and the original layout of the barracks. (James Colonel H: Plan of Artillery barracks Exeter: 1813-1866; Proceedings of Devon Association for the Advancement of Science: Breihan Professor J: Army Barracks in Devon during the Revolutionary & Napoleonic War: 1990-: 150).
Listing NGR: SX9331691230
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469524
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Breihan, J, Proceedings of Devon Association for the Advancement of Science in Army Barracks in Devon during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic War, (1990), 150
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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