Gateway and Guard House, Berwick Barracks Museum
GATEWAY AND GUARD HOUSE, BERWICK BARRACKS MUSEUM, PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1244721
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Guard House, Berwick Barracks Museum
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND GUARD HOUSE, BERWICK BARRACKS MUSEUM, PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1244721
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Guard House, Berwick Barracks Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY AND GUARD HOUSE, BERWICK BARRACKS MUSEUM, PARADE
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.
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:
- GATEWAY AND GUARD HOUSE, BERWICK BARRACKS MUSEUM, PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 00090 53115
Details
NUO053 BERWICK ON TWEED PARADE
(South side)
622/11/10006 Gateway and guard house, Berwick
Barracks Museum
26.05.1971
GV I
Barracks entrance gateway, guard house and offices now museum and mess. 1719-21, probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor, for the Board of Ordnance. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar left-hand lateral and single right-hand ridge stacks, and hipped slate roof. Vernacular Baroque style. Single-depth plinth blocks flank central gateway. EXTERIOR: single storey; 3-section range. The street front has heavy pilaster strips either side of a semi-circular archway with key and impost blocks, wrought-iron double gates, and a raised parapet above containing a gilded and painted coat of arms cartouche of George I; right-hand former guard house has 3 small flat-arched windows under the eaves, and the mess to the left has a parapet, stepped down to the left, with a single segmental-arched plate-glass sash.
The parade ground elevation is similar with raised parapet to tl1e gateway, 6-window guard house with a mid C19 cast-iron glazed verandah, and 5-bay mess with 8/8-pane sashes and central inserted C20 half-glazed door. Closes the N end of the parade ground.
INTERIOR: without special features.
HISTORY: part of the earliest planned barrack complex in England, pre-dating most other English barracks by nearly 80 years, because of the need for a permanent garrison on the Scottish border. One of a number of Ordnance buildings at this time associated with Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh.
(MacIvor I: The Fortifications of Berwick on Tweed: London: 1972-: 8, 29; Barker N in Chaney and Bold (eds): English Architecture Public and Private: London: 1993-: 199-230; Map of Berwick-on-Tweed: 1788-: PRO, WO78/1172).
Listing NGR: NU0009053115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472881
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
MacIvor, I, The Fortifications of Berwick upon Tweed, (1972), 199-230
Bold, , Chaney, , English Architecture Public and Private Essays for Kerry Downes, (1993)
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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