FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 56), FULWOOD BARRACKS

FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 56), FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244762
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1982
List Entry Name:: FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 56), FULWOOD BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 56), FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244762
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 56), FULWOOD BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 56), FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD

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.

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

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER HOSPITAL (BUILDING 56), FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 54877 31856

Details

SD53SW FULWOOD WATLING STREET ROAD (North side)

1023/7/10013 Former Hospital (Building 56), Fulwood Barracks 29.3.1982

GV II

Hospital, now medical centre. Dated 1844, by Major T Foster RE, for the Ordnance Board. Rock-faced sandstone ashlar with ashlar cross-axial ridge and lateral stacks and slate hipped roof Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan in two sections each with a central rear ablution pavilion. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5:9-window range. Near symmetrical front with steps up to central entrances to each section with plain ashlar surrounds, 8-pane overlights and mid C20 doors, and late C20 6/6-pane top-hung casements. Wider right-hand section has short rear wings including a 3-window right-hand return with blocked ground-floor windows, and a short central pavilion with a narrow passage of 2 round ashlar arches with 3-pane overlights and a blocked doorway with imposts, connecting to wider rear ablution tower, all with rear lateral stacks. A similar rear pavilion to the rear of the left-hand section. Hoppers inscribed VR 1844. INTERIOR: has entrance stair halls to dogleg stairs with column newels, stick balusters and uncut strings, and rear axial passages. HISTORY: the right-hand section was for the infantry and that to the left for the cavalry. The barracks was built in response to anxiety over Chartist agitation. Although the south-east barrack range has been lost, the original plan of two parade squares within a defensible perimeter wall is substantially intact, making Fulwood the most complete example in England of the late C18 concept of barrack design. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR: MCR 58).

Listing NGR: SD5487731856

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 472870
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.