The Barracks Business Centre

The Barracks Business Centre, Wakefield Road, Pontefract, Wakefield, WF8 4HH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135429
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: The Barracks Business Centre
Statutory Address:: The Barracks Business Centre, Wakefield Road, Pontefract, Wakefield, WF8 4HH

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Date:: 2003-02-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135429
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: The Barracks Business Centre
Statutory Address 1:: The Barracks Business Centre, Wakefield Road, Pontefract, Wakefield, WF8 4HH

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:: The Barracks Business Centre, Wakefield Road, Pontefract, Wakefield, WF8 4HH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 44596 21202

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 September 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 42 SW 1282-012/64

WAKEFIELD ROAD (North East side) The Barracks Business Centre

(Formerly listed as The Barracks Public House)

15.11.88

II

Armoury, guard house and store, now public house. 1878, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon PE; extended at rear mid C20. Brick with black brick dressings and flat ashlar roof Fortress Gothic Revival style. Square plan with corner stair towers to front and central rear.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, four-storey tower; 3:6:3-window range. Battered plinth, black bands to cills and heads, cornice and crenellated parapet; segmental-arched heads to metal-framed windows. Towers have sunken panels beneath pseudo-machicolations and a cornice, with taller top section with raised corners; rear corners raised, and rear C20 tower with plain top.

INTERIOR: Has a fireproof interior of cast-iron columns to jack arches, and winder stairs.

HISTORY: The Keep was a secure armoury, store, and lock-up, and was the characteristic building of the Localisation depots. They were part of the Cardwell reforms, which redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections and assist recruitment. With the matching example at Bury St Edmunds, one of only ten surviving examples of this important symbolic building.

(Watson Colonel Sir H M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).

Listing NGR: SE4459621202

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 342703
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Watson, H M, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, (1954), 157-160

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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.