Former Cavalry Barracks, Christchurch Barracks
FORMER CAVALRY BARRACKS, CHRISTCHURCH BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325038
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cavalry Barracks, Christchurch Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CAVALRY BARRACKS, CHRISTCHURCH BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325038
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cavalry Barracks, Christchurch Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CAVALRY BARRACKS, CHRISTCHURCH BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
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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:
- FORMER CAVALRY BARRACKS, CHRISTCHURCH BARRACKS, BARRACK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Christchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 14638 93242
Details
SZ1493 BARRACK ROAD (South West side )
748/4/442 Former Cavalry barracks, Christchurch Barracks 12.02.1976 II
Cavalry barrack, disuse. 1795, by J Johnson and J Sanders, architects to the Barrack Department. Red Flemish bond brick with rubbed brick dressings, brick ridge stacks and slate hipped roof. PLAN: double-depth former officers' section at one end, single-depth stables, and single-depth first floor soldiers' rooms. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 9-window range. Symmetrical front and rear have end 2 windows set apart and slightly forward, rubbed brick heads to wide segmental-arched openings, taller on the ground floor, with tripartite windows with 6/6-pane sashes, most blocked (1994), and range of 4 flat-headed 4/4-pane sashes. Ground-floor openings altered. Flat-headed dormers with 8/8-pane sashes. SE principal officers' entrance end has a tall central round-arched recess with matching doorway, tall radial fanlight and double half-glazed doors, with flanking round-arched openings containing a left-hand 8/8-pane sash and right-hand triple 4/4-pane sashes, and first-floor segmental-arched openings with a left-hand tripartite 8/4-pane sash, right-hand triple 4/4-pane sashes, and smaller paired 4/4-pane sashes in the middle. NW end has smaller openings with ground-floor 6-pane lights, first-floor central double doors, right-hand blocked opening and left-hand 3-light casements; paired dormers. INTERIOR: not inspected, but noted as having cast-iron columns which doubled as stall dividers in the stables. HISTORY: originally with stables, kitchens, stores and offices on the ground floor and troops accommodation on the first and attic. The least altered of four surviving examples of cavalry barracks, of the type widely built in the first army barrack-building programme in England. (Bournemouth Local Studies Publications: Barker J: Christchurch Barracks: Bournemouth: 1984-: NO 674; Proceedings of the Dorset Historical & Archaeological Society: Breihan Professor J: Barracks in Dorset during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 1989-: 9-14.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101403
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Breihan, J, Proceedings of the Dorset Historical and Archaeological Society in Barracks in Dorset during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, (1989), 9-14
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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