Former Officers' Mess, Fenham Barracks
FORMER OFFICERS' MESS, FENHAM BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186173
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Former Officers' Mess, Fenham Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER OFFICERS' MESS, FENHAM BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186173
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Officers' Mess, Fenham Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER OFFICERS' MESS, FENHAM BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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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 OFFICERS' MESS, FENHAM BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23772 65023
Details
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NZ 26 NW
BARRACK ROAD
(North East side)
1833/8/81
Former officers' mess, Fenham Barracks
17.12.71
GV II
Artillery barracks officers' mess; now student accommodation. 1804-06, by James Wyatt, Surveyor General to the Ordnance Board, converted c1994. English bond brick with brown sandstone dressings, brick ridge stacks and slate hipped valley roof. Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 7-window range. Symmetrical front with ashlar basement and plinth, first-floor cill band and eaves frieze and cornice, with the 1-window end sections set forward; central entrance has Tuscan columns to entablature blocks with Royal Artillery shields and an open pediment, in front of a round-arched doorway on pilasters with a radial fanlight and late C20 6-panel door. Round-arched late C20 ground-floor horned 6/6-pane sashes, the end ones set within matching arched recesses, and segmental-arched first-floor horned 2/2-pane sashes; matching rear has a central round-arched stair light over the entrance which cuts through the cill band. 3-bay returns have openings at the front, the outer ones blind, and the middle ground-floor window set within a round-arched recess. INTERIOR: Completely rebuilt c1994. HISTORY: The Ordnance Board were responsible during the Napoleonic War for Artillery barracks. One of the earliest surviving officers' messes in the country, the only example of a stone barracks from this period, and with the sergeants' mess and guard houses (qqv) a small part of the former Fenham Artillery Barracks. (Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series: Breihan J: Army Barracks in the NE in the Era of the French Revolution: 1990-: 171).
Listing NGR: NZ2377265023
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 304382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Breihan, J, Archaeologia Aeliana in Army Barracks in the NE in the Era of the French Revolution, (1990), 171
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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