Keep and Attached Gateway, Former Stoughton Barracks
KEEP AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, FORMER STOUGHTON BARRACKS, STOUGHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375583
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Keep and Attached Gateway, Former Stoughton Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- KEEP AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, FORMER STOUGHTON BARRACKS, STOUGHTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375583
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Keep and Attached Gateway, Former Stoughton Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEEP AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, FORMER STOUGHTON BARRACKS, STOUGHTON 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:
- KEEP AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, FORMER STOUGHTON BARRACKS, STOUGHTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 98425 51632
Details
SU 95 SE GUILDFORD STOUGHTON ROAD
(East side), Stoughton
1688/1/10007
Keep and attached gateway,
Former Stoughton Barracks
GV II
Armoury , guard house and store, and attached gateway, now flats. Dated 1876, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon RE; converted 1994. Brick with Portland ashlar, terracotta and yellow brick dressings, lateral stacks and flat asphalt roof Fortress Tudor Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: Square plan with left and rear right corner stair towers. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 3:3:1-window range. Battered ground floor to moulded drip mould, cill and impost bands of terracotta to cornice and crenellated parapet, raised to the 1-window splayed corners; taller projecting square towers have similar decoration, and pseudo machicolation. Chan1fered heads and cills to metal-framed windows, 3-window side and rear ranges, the towers have stepped, glazed stair loops. The right-hand side has a cast-iron verandah to the former guard house.
INTERIOR: not inspected but reported to have a fire-proof construction of jack-arches and cast-iron columns, and stone open-well stairs in the towers.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front right-hand gateway set in a crow-stepped gable with ashlar-coping and yellow brick side panels, a moulded segmental archway with swept iron spear-headed double gates, raised lozenge panels inscribed 18 VR 76, and flanking flat-headed wickets with spear-headed iron gates.
HISTORY: formerly with a ground-floor guard room and fire engine garage, and gun and clothing stores on the upper floors. 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 they keep raised the local profile of the barracks, and provided an emblematic focus for the regiment. Only ten surviving examples of this important symbolic building. Though converted, Stoughton 'keep' remains a significant local landmark, as its designers intended, and a building of considerable historic interest.
(PSA Drawing Collection, NMR: ALD/1265-1266; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Surrey: London: 1971-: 280; SAVE Britain's Heritage: Deserted Bastions, Historic Naval and Military Architecture: London: 1993-: 83; Watson Colonel Sir H M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).
Listing NGR: SU9842551632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469547
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watson, H M, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, (1954), 157-160
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 280
SAVE Britains Heritage, , Deserted Bastions, (1993), 83
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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