IMPHAL BARRACKS THE KEEP

IMPHAL BARRACKS THE KEEP, FULFORD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257808
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:: IMPHAL BARRACKS THE KEEP
Statutory Address:: IMPHAL BARRACKS THE KEEP, FULFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257808
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:: IMPHAL BARRACKS THE KEEP
Statutory Address 1:: IMPHAL BARRACKS THE KEEP, FULFORD 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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Location

Statutory Address:: IMPHAL BARRACKS THE KEEP, FULFORD ROAD

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

District:: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 60900 50150

Details

SE 65 SW YORK FULFORD ROAD (East side) 1112-1/2/355 Imphal Barracks: The Keep 24.6.83 II

Armoury, guardhouse and store, 1877-80, designed at the War Office by Major H C Seddon, RE; later alterations. Red brick with terracotta bands and stone dressings, lateral stacks and asphalt roof Fortress Tudor Gothic Revival style. PLAN: Rectangular plan with ground-floor guard room, and detention cells, corner stairs, and stores on upper floors. EXTERIOR: 3 storey; 7 -bay range with 4-stage towers. A regular block with square corner stair towers, and brick corbel cornice and crenellated parapet. Black brick bands to cills and heads, windows are 6/6-pane sashes with cambered heads and stone cills. Entrances to left return and rear with cambered-head doorways. Towers with staggered slit windows to stairs. Rear tower facing parade has a clock. INTERIOR: fireproof interior with cast-iron columns and flat ceilings, possibly replacing the earlier jack arch floors, stone closed-well stairs with stone treads. HISTORY: The Keep was a secure armoury, stores, guard house and lock up, and the characteristic building of the Localisation depots. They were part of the Cardwell reforms, which redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections, and assist recruitment. As such, the Keep raised the local profile of the barracks, and provided an emblematic focus for the regiment. One of only ten remaining examples of this important symbolic structure.

Listing NGR: SE6090050150

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Legacy System number:: 463441
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
York City Council, , On Parade The Military Buildings of York, (1993)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.