WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK MUSEUM

WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK MUSEUM, PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1244722
Date first listed:: 26-May-1971
List Entry Name:: WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK MUSEUM
Statutory Address:: WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK MUSEUM, PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1244722
Date first listed:: 26-May-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK MUSEUM
Statutory Address 1:: WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK MUSEUM, PARADE

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Statutory Address:: WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK MUSEUM, PARADE

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District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Berwick-upon-Tweed
National Grid Reference:: NU 00076 53072

Details

NUO053 BERWICK ON TWEED PARADE (South side) 622/11/10005 West barrack and attached perimeter wall, Berwick Barracks Museum 26.05.1971

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Barrack and officers' block. 1719-21, probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor, for the Board of Ordnance. Sandstone ashlar, rendered to the front, with brick axial stacks, and slate valley roof Vernacular Baroque style. Double-depth plan with N officers' section. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 16:4-window range. A near Symmetrical range, with right-hand end section set forward, blocked quoins to stepped gables, the single bar to the left of the end range defined by a blocked pilaster strip, entrance bays to the centre and 3 from each end of the main range broken forward, with a thin cornice and parapet. Segmental-arched doorways with imposts and tall keys, small-paned fanlights and double boarded doors; ashlar Surrounds to, ground- and second-floor flat-arched 8/8-pane sashes, and first-floor round-arched sashes with key and imposts; the 5 accentuated right-hand bays have segmental-arched first-floor windows, as do those to the rear elevation, which has 3 C20 service blocks attached. Right-hand gable onto the Parade has segmental-archedg1-ound-floor horned 2/2-pane sashes, and single first-floor round-arched and second-floor segmental-arched 8/8-panesashes, with boarded oculi in the stepped gables. INTERIOR: heated back-to-back barrack rooms, divided by a spine wall, with stair flights from the entrances with Uncut string and 2 rails; officers' rooms in the end are separated by an axial corridor with stair with column newels and stick balusters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached parallel rear rubble wall with interval piers encloses rear yard, and extends approximately 80m from the NW corner S to meet the officers' mess (qv), 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 near the Scottish border. This plan is typical of the C17 and early C18. One of a group of Ordnance buildings from this period associated with Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh.

Listing NGR: NU0007653072

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.