Former Weedon Barracks, Large Magazine to West of the Series of Four Magazines in Magazine Enclosure
FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, LARGE MAGAZINE TO WEST OF THE SERIES OF FOUR MAGAZINES IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203528
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Weedon Barracks, Large Magazine to West of the Series of Four Magazines in Magazine Enclosure
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, LARGE MAGAZINE TO WEST OF THE SERIES OF FOUR MAGAZINES IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203528
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Weedon Barracks, Large Magazine to West of the Series of Four Magazines in Magazine Enclosure
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, LARGE MAGAZINE TO WEST OF THE SERIES OF FOUR MAGAZINES IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE, BRIDGE STREET
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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 WEEDON BARRACKS, LARGE MAGAZINE TO WEST OF THE SERIES OF FOUR MAGAZINES IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weedon Bec
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 62099 59552
Details
WEEDEN BEC
1732/16/188 BRIDGE STREET 29-APR-87 LOWER WEEDON (West side) FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, LARGE MAGAZINE TO WEST OF THE SERIES OF FOUR MAGAZIN ES IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE
GV II* Magazine. c1857. English bond red brick, gabled Welsh slate roofs with moulded corbels to kneelers of coped gables. Stepped eaves to side elevations. Plan incorporates four vaulted chambers, and the magazine is separted from the earlier group by an earth traverse of the same date. Segmental arches over four doorways in north elevation, with ventilators above: each has a ventilator with pulley-operated inner and outer shutters; iron outer and timber inner frames. South elevation is similar, except doorways widened late C20. Side elevations have perforated wrought-iron plates to ventilators, which are baffled internally. Interior: catenary arches to each chamber, with inserted openings to originally blind openings between.
Part of a unique planned military-industrial complex, complete with its own defensible transport system and surrounding walls. Although the magazines (drawings of 1816 in Royal Engineers Library, W140 (D38), and later plans and drawings also archived there) are smaller in terms of their individual scale than the late 18th century example at Priddy's Hard opposite the naval dock at Portsmouth (listed grade I and like the Weedon examples built to the distinctive British double-vaulted plan), as a group they had no rival until the suite of traversed magazines were built at Bull Point, Plymouth, in the 1850s (Scheduled Ancient Monument). Catenary arches were first used at Tipnor in the 1790s and then Colonel D'Arcy's magazine at Upnor. The use of traverses makes the group highly innovatory in terms of its planning, blast walls of earth (sometimes faced in brick) being henceforth a characteristic features of magazine complexes. These traverses have also uniquely assumed an architectural form.
Drawings of this magazine in Royal Engineers Library W54 (810), W55 (D45) 810, W57 (D43)). For full details of the site see description of Storehouse No 2.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 360834
- 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.
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