West Barrack and Attached Perimeter Wall, Berwick Barrack Museum
WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK MUSEUM, PARADE
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Overview
- 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.
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:
- WEST BARRACK AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALL, BERWICK BARRACK 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 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
GV I
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472882
- 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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