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Latitude: 53.6854 / 53°41'7"N
Longitude: -1.3262 / 1°19'34"W
OS Eastings: 444596
OS Northings: 421202
OS Grid: SE445212
Mapcode National: GBR MT5T.PM
Mapcode Global: WHDC6.LMPL
Plus Code: 9C5WMMPF+5G
Entry Name: The Barracks Business Centre
Listing Date: 15 November 1988
Last Amended: 4 February 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1135429
English Heritage Legacy ID: 342703
ID on this website: 101135429
Location: Marl Pits, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF8
County: Wakefield
Electoral Ward/Division: Pontefract North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Pontefract
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Pontefract St Giles with St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Pub
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SE 42 SW
1282-012/64
WAKEFIELD ROAD (North East side)
The Barracks Business Centre
(Formerly listed as The Barracks Public House)
15.11.88
II
Armoury, guard house and store, now public house. 1878, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon PE; extended at rear mid C20. Brick with black brick dressings and flat ashlar roof Fortress Gothic Revival style. Square plan with corner stair towers to front and central rear.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, four-storey tower; 3:6:3-window range. Battered plinth, black bands to cills and heads, cornice and crenellated parapet; segmental-arched heads to metal-framed windows. Towers have sunken panels beneath pseudo-machicolations and a cornice, with taller top section with raised corners; rear corners raised, and rear C20 tower with plain top.
INTERIOR: Has a fireproof interior of cast-iron columns to jack arches, and winder stairs.
HISTORY: The Keep was a secure armoury, store, and lock-up, and was the characteristic building of the Localisation depots. They were part of the Cardwell reforms, which redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections and assist recruitment. With the matching example at Bury St Edmunds, one of only ten surviving examples of this important symbolic building.
(Watson Colonel Sir H M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).
Listing NGR: SE4459621202
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