Gatehouse to Le Marchant Barracks with gate piers

GATEHOUSE TO LE MARCHANT BARRACKS WITH GATE PIERS, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271946
Date first listed:: 17-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: Gatehouse to Le Marchant Barracks with gate piers
Statutory Address:: GATEHOUSE TO LE MARCHANT BARRACKS WITH GATE PIERS, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271946
Date first listed:: 17-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: Gatehouse to Le Marchant Barracks with gate piers
Statutory Address 1:: GATEHOUSE TO LE MARCHANT BARRACKS WITH GATE PIERS, LONDON 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:: GATEHOUSE TO LE MARCHANT BARRACKS WITH GATE PIERS, LONDON ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishops Cannings
National Grid Reference:: SU0186762506

Details

The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 October 2019:

1. 1042 SU 06 SW 9/16

LONDON ROAD (South side) Gatehouse to Le Marchant Barracks with Gate Piers SU 06 SW 9/16

II

Armoury, guard house and store, now part warehouse; and gateway. Dated 1878, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon RE. Red brick laid in English Bond with limestone and stone dressings; lateral stacks and asphalt roof. Fortress Gothic Revival style. PLAN: square, with ground-floor guard room and detention cells, corner stairs, stores on the upper floors. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 5-window range. A regular, square block with opposite square stair towers rising above the roof, with corbel tables and machicolation; the other two corners chamfered, with raised parapets, stone sill and lintel bands, dentil eaves and crenellated parapet. Battered ground floor to a weathered band, narrow metal-framed windows with stone lintels, stepped in threes to the stair towers. A glazed iron verandah over the entrance to the former guard room. To the rear is a double door formerly for the barracks fire engine. INTERIOR: not inspected, but noted as having a fire-proof frame of iron columns to jack arches, stone open-well stairs, and a standard layout of stores and other rooms. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wicket gateway with an iron gate, and one of originally two gate piers forming the main entrance to the barracks. HISTORY: the Keep was a secure armoury, store, guard house and lock-up, and the characteristic building of the Localisation depots. These 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 local Wiltshire regiment, whose home this was from 1878 until 1967. With the similar version at Reading, one of only ten surviving examples of this important symbolic building. (Watson Colonel Sir HM: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).

This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1243314) was removed from the List on 25 October 2019.

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Legacy System number:: 452302
Legacy System:: LBS

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