The Barracks, White Cross
THE BARRACKS, WHITE CROSS, SOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298329
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Barracks, White Cross
- Statutory Address:
- THE BARRACKS, WHITE CROSS, SOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298329
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Barracks, White Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BARRACKS, WHITE CROSS, SOUTH 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:
- THE BARRACKS, WHITE CROSS, SOUTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47840 61234
Details
SD 4761 SE LANCASTER SOUTH ROAD
(East side)
1685-1/8/259
The Barracks, White Cross
18/02/70
II
Militia armoury and store, now offices. 1854, converted c1983. Reputedly by Edmund Sharpe. For the First Royal Lancashire Militia. Squared coursed sandstone with rock-faced quoins. Slate roofs. Scottish Baronial style. H-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 5-bay recessed centre under a parapet carried on a corbel-table, and cross-wings of 2 storeys plus attic and 2 bays under crow-stepped gables with central finials and with corbelled comer turrets with conical stone roofs and finials. The windows are mullioned, each with a single transom, and are of 2 lights except for the 2nd and 4th bays of the recessed centre, which have windows of 3 lights. All have casements with glazing bars. The upper lights on the 1st floor have heads with shouldered arches.
The cross-wings have 2-light attic windows. The doorway, in the central bay, is casement-moulded and has a depressed 2-centred arched head with rusticated voussoirs and carved keystone. The chimneys have corbelled cappings. INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: built for the First Royal Lancashire Militia, following the Militia Reform Act (1852), which required the county to build a secure quarters to act as a muster point for the new militia regiment. The regiment moved to Bowerham Barracks in 1881. The building was purchased by Storey Brothers, who used it as offices for their adjoining White Cross works. Following the closure of the works it was bought by Lancashire Enterprises Limited in 1983 and converted for letting as office suites. Reputed to be designed by Edmund Sharpe, but if so this was after the time when he handed over control of his architectural practice to EG Paley.
Listing NGR: SD4784061234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383329
- 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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