FORMER SOUTH EAST GUNNERS BARRACKS (BUILDING 1), WYVERN BARRACKS

Former South East Gunners' barracks (Building 1), Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1109981
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER SOUTH EAST GUNNERS BARRACKS (BUILDING 1), WYVERN BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: Former South East Gunners' barracks (Building 1), Wyvern Barracks, Topsham Road, Exeter

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1109981
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER SOUTH EAST GUNNERS BARRACKS (BUILDING 1), WYVERN BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: Former South East Gunners' barracks (Building 1), 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Former South East Gunners' barracks (Building 1), 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 93366 91190

Details

SX 9391 871/15/10026

EXETER, TOPSHAM ROAD (North side), Former SE Gunners' barracks (Building 1), Wyvern Barracks

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Formerly known as: Topsham barracks TOPSHAM ROAD. Artillery gunner's 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 front facing former square with a doorway 3 windows from the Wend with a plate-glass overlight and C20 door; 6/6-pane ground-floor and 8/8-pane first-floor sashes, earlier ones without horns; similar opposite side. 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; dogleg stairs lead from entrance. HISTORY: one of a pair of barracks for RA gunner/drivers, with Building 11 (qv), which formed the S perimeter to the former Artillery barracks. Originally L-shaped with an officers' section flanking the entrance, now demolished. Although altered, it is included as part of the most complete small artillery barracks of the Napoleonic War , defining with the former Officer's range opposite (qv) the central parade square and the original layout of the barracks. (Transactions of the Devon Association for Advancement of Science: Breihall Professor J: Army Barracks in Devon during the Revolutionary & Napoleonic War: 1990-: 150;James Colonel H: Plan of Artillery barracks Exeter: 1813-1866).

Listing NGR: SX9336691190

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Legacy System number:: 469525
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.