Former Weedon Barracks, East Blast House of Series of Four in Magazine Enclosure
FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, EAST BLAST HOUSE OF SERIES OF FOUR IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1342985
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Weedon Barracks, East Blast House of Series of Four in Magazine Enclosure
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, EAST BLAST HOUSE OF SERIES OF FOUR IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1342985
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Weedon Barracks, East Blast House of Series of Four in Magazine Enclosure
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, EAST BLAST HOUSE OF SERIES OF FOUR IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE, BRIDGE STREET
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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:
- FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, EAST BLAST HOUSE OF SERIES OF FOUR IN MAGAZINE ENCLOSURE, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weedon Bec
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 62297 59567
Details
WEEDEN BEC
1732/16/196 BRIDGE STREET 29-APR-87 LOWER WEEDON (West side) FORMER WEEDON BARRACKS, EAST BLAST HOU SE OF SERIES OF FOUR IN MAGAZINE ENCLO SURE
GV II* Blast house, also known as a traverse. 1807-11. Flemish bond red brick with gauged brick arches, and with dentilled eaves to side walls; stone-coped kneelers to slate roof.
PLAN: Rectangular plan, aligned north-south, the central blast house being filled with earth and flanked at each end by a small office and Shifting Room, for changing into specialist magazine clothing. Only the southern sections of the latter survive, those to north having been demolished.
EXTERIOR: Gabled south elevations have segmental arches over central doorway and flanking windows (originally beaded 6-panel door and 6/6-pane sash). East elevation of blast house has elliptical arches over two sentry boxes, facing the Storehouse Enclosure.
INTERIOR: blast house originally earth-filled, and retains pegged king post roof. The interiors of the office/Shifting Rooms originally had boarded or panelled walls.
Part of a unique planned military-industrial complex, complete with its own defensible transport system and surrounding walls. Although the magazines (drawings of 1816 in Royal Engineers Library, W140 (D38), and later plans and drawings also archived there) are smaller in terms of their individual scale than the late 18th century example at Priddy's Hard opposite the naval dock at Portsmouth (listed grade I and like the Weedon examples built to the distinctive British double-vaulted plan), as a group they had no rival until the suite of traversed magazines were built at Bull Point, Plymouth, in the 1850s (Scheduled Ancient Monument). Catenary arches were first used at Tipnor in the 1790s and then Colonel D'Arcy's magazine at Upnor. The use of traverses makes the group highly innovatory in terms of its planning, blast walls of earth (sometimes faced in brick) being henceforth a characteristic features of magazine complexes. These traverses have also uniquely assumed an architectural form.
For full details of the site see description of Storehouse No 2.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 360842
- 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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