Gibraltar Barracks Walls and Gates
GIBRALTAR BARRACKS WALLS AND GATES, OUT RISBYGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244844
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Gibraltar Barracks Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- GIBRALTAR BARRACKS WALLS AND GATES, OUT RISBYGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244844
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Gibraltar Barracks Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- GIBRALTAR BARRACKS WALLS AND GATES, OUT RISBYGATE
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:
- GIBRALTAR BARRACKS WALLS AND GATES, OUT RISBYGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8427664520
Details
TL86SW
639-1/13/514
14/09/92
BURY ST EDMUNDS
OUT RISBYGATE
(North side)
Gibraltar Barracks: Walls and Gates
(Formerly Listed as:
OUT RISBYGATE
(North side)
Walls and gates to former Barracks)
GV
II
Boundary walls to the south, west and east of the former
Suffolk Localisation depot, (now the Suffolk Regimental
Museum, qv), with entrance gates and low corner turrets. 1878,
by the War Office. Red brick, laid in English Bond, with some
stone details.
The walls are high with a high plinth and a projecting top
with rounded copings. It is divided into narrow bays by sturdy
full height pilasters. Along the south side 2 sections are
rebuilt without any detailing. Where the ground level changes
the wall is stepped at intervals. At the east and west ends of
the south side are low corner turrets, crenellated, with a row
of 3 slit windows along each of the outer faces.
The main entrance to the Barracks on the south side has high,
wide wrought-iron gates flanked by small side gates. The 4
gate piers each have 3 plain stone bands, one above the
plinth, the other 2 below the stone cap, which is square with
chamfered sides. Each pair of gate piers is linked above the
side gates by brickwork, with a stone capping and moulded
head, and carries a stone block, on the left with a shield
dated 1878, and on the right with the interwoven letters VR.
Also painted over the left gate are the almost obliterated
words 'DEPOT SUFFOLK REGIMENT'.
Included as part of a group with the former keep (qv), as
forming the entrance to the depot, now demolished.
Listing NGR: TL8427664520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467080
- 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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