Racquet Court, Fulwood Barracks
RACQUET COURT, FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244768
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Racquet Court, Fulwood Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- RACQUET COURT, FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244768
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Racquet Court, Fulwood Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- RACQUET COURT, FULWOOD BARRACKS, WATLING STREET ROAD
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:
- RACQUET COURT, 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 54795 31526
Details
SD53SW FULWOOD WATLING STREET ROAD
(North side)
1023/7/10008 Racquet Court, Fulwood Barracks 29.3.1982
GV II
Racquet court, disused. 1842-1848. Snecked rock-faced sandstone, roofless court and corrugated sheet lean-to roof. Single-depth court with side lean-to and rear heated room.
EXTERIOR: single storey; windowless range court. Coped open court has raking side walls up to the rear wall, a round-arched doorway with recessed door and boarded fanlight in the lower side, and on the opposite side a single-storey lean-to with mid C20 windows and outer doors. Coped wall to an enclosed room forms the outer wall, with a square lateral stack.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: forms part of the projecting SW comer which gave a field of fire along the W wall. Fives courts were common in barracks for officers' games. The barracks was built in response to anxiety over Chartist agitation. Although the south-east barrack range has been lost, the original barracks plan of 2 parade squares within a defensible perimeter wall is substantially intact, making Fulwood the most complete surviving example in England of the late C18 concept of barracks design.
(PSA Drawings Collection, NMR: MCR 58).
Listing NGR: SD5479531526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472876
- 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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