Gatehouse to Le Marchant Barracks with gate piers
GATEHOUSE TO LE MARCHANT BARRACKS WITH GATE PIERS, LONDON ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- 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
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2005-04-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/13968/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Adam Tegetmeier. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- 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
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:
- 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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 452302
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 05-Jun-2026 at 19:15:59.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.