BLOCK ONE (FORMER SOLDIERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT BARRACKS

BLOCK ONE (FORMER SOLDIERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT BARRACKS, FOULSTON AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390866
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-2004
List Entry Name:: BLOCK ONE (FORMER SOLDIERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: BLOCK ONE (FORMER SOLDIERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT BARRACKS, FOULSTON AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390866
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-2004
List Entry Name:: BLOCK ONE (FORMER SOLDIERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: BLOCK ONE (FORMER SOLDIERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT BARRACKS, FOULSTON AVENUE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BLOCK ONE (FORMER SOLDIERS' QUARTERS) BULL POINT BARRACKS, FOULSTON AVENUE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX 43809 57891

Details

740-1/0/10042 FOULSTON AVENUE 22-JUN-04 St Budeaux (South side) Block One (former soldiers' quarters), Bull Point Training Centre

GV II Soldiers' quarters within fort; now training centre. 1840s. English bond red brick with stone plinth, rendered front and sides, with hipped slate roofs.

PLAN: Double-depth plan with entrance stairs.

EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 12-window range. Rubbed brick flat arches to doorways with mid-C20 doors and blocked overlights 3 windows in from the ends, and windows with horned 6/6-pane sashes. 3-window right-hand end with a central doorway and 6-pane overlight, the windows toward the front are blind. 12-window rear has smaller 4/4-pane sashes corresponding to the stairs.

INTERIOR: refitted as offices, retaining some original joinery and dog-leg stairs.

HISTORY: this defensible barracks was built for the guard of the nearby Bull Point ordnance yard, which was erected for the Ordnance Board between 1851 and 1855, and to protect the northern approaches of Devonport Dockyard from invasion. This is a very complete and unaltered example of a defensible barracks of the type built in the 1840s and 50s, and is the only barracks built around Devonport for the defence of the Dockyard which still remains. The closest example of such a defensible barracks is located close to the dockyard at Pembroke in Wales, the 'police barracks' in the industrial north of England having two survivals (Fulwood Barracks, Preston, and Hillsborough Barracks, Sheffield) which also retain bastioned but less defensible walls.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 492317
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.