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Former Hospital (Building 56), Fulwood Barracks

A Grade II Listed Building in Fulwood, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7811 / 53°46'51"N

Longitude: -2.6862 / 2°41'10"W

OS Eastings: 354877

OS Northings: 431856

OS Grid: SD548318

Mapcode National: GBR TCY.04

Mapcode Global: WH85M.Q716

Plus Code: 9C5VQ8J7+CG

Entry Name: Former Hospital (Building 56), Fulwood Barracks

Listing Date: 29 March 1982

Last Amended: 4 February 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1244762

English Heritage Legacy ID: 472870

ID on this website: 101244762

Location: Holme Slack, Preston, Lancashire, PR2

County: Lancashire

District: Preston

Electoral Ward/Division: Garrison

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Fulwood

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Fulwood Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


SD53SW FULWOOD WATLING STREET ROAD
(North side)

1023/7/10013 Former Hospital
(Building 56), Fulwood Barracks 29.3.1982

GV II

Hospital, now medical centre. Dated 1844, by Major T Foster RE, for the Ordnance Board. Rock-faced sandstone ashlar with ashlar cross-axial ridge and lateral stacks and slate hipped roof Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan in two sections each with a central rear ablution pavilion. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5:9-window range. Near symmetrical front with steps up to central entrances to each section with plain ashlar surrounds, 8-pane overlights and mid C20 doors, and late C20 6/6-pane top-hung casements. Wider right-hand section has short rear wings including a 3-window right-hand return with blocked ground-floor windows, and a short central pavilion with a narrow passage of 2 round ashlar arches with 3-pane overlights and a blocked doorway with imposts, connecting to wider rear ablution tower, all with rear lateral stacks. A similar rear pavilion to the rear of the left-hand section. Hoppers inscribed VR 1844.
INTERIOR: has entrance stair halls to dogleg stairs with column newels, stick balusters and uncut strings, and rear axial passages.
HISTORY: the right-hand section was for the infantry and that to the left for the cavalry. The barracks was built in response to anxiety over Chartist agitation. Although the south-east barrack range has been lost, the original plan of two parade squares within a defensible perimeter wall is substantially intact, making Fulwood the most complete example in England of the late C18 concept of barrack design.
(PSA Drawings Collection, NMR: MCR 58).


Listing NGR: SD5487731856

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