Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6780SE ALEXANDRA ROAD
873-1/15/7 (West side)
Nos.24 AND 26
The Lindens (No.26)

II

Barracks, now pair of semi-detached bungalows. 1798. By
Alexander Copland (a London contractor) For the Barrack
Master, General Col DeLancey. Rendered on timber-framing,
slate hipped roof, replaced by asbestos-cement slate to No.24.
Each bungalow is of L-plan; No.24 returns with a hipped end to
a long wing, and No.26 returns to a set-back gabled
projection, then the return wing.
EXTERIOR: single storey, each 2 windows; 4-pane sashes, with
pointed heads, but in square frames, above an apron panel. At
the centre is a contemporary lean-to porch with a door to
pointed head, under a transom light and with side-lights, with
a mid-bar, and with small corner quadrants. Between the 2
bungalows is a vertical projecting party-divider with
scalloped saw-tooth edge, continued over the roof slope as a
slight capping, and there is an eaves band with a series of
small stamped or punched quatrefoils, and fluted end
pilasters. A ridge centre stack, and further stacks at each
end.
The left return has a gable end with wavy barge-board over a
large 4-pane sash, and the right return a 1:3:1-light square
bay with lean-to roof, and a large 4-pane sash.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: probably officers' quarters for Radipole
Cavalry Barracks, built in 1798, but abandoned by 1828
(RCHME); these had a large parade square to the W of
Dorchester Road, and the bungalows stood on the far W side of
that square.
Formed part of a chain of one-troop cavalry barracks along the
south coast planned by DeLancey. With Nos 1-5 Radipole Terrace
(qv), these have considerable historic interest as examples of
semi-permanent military accommodation, between the flexible
and cheap temporary use of rented warehouses and barns during
the intense invasion scares of the Napoleonic Wars, and the
permanent but slow and costly alternative of brick barracks.
(RCHME: Dorset: South-East: London: 1970-: 358).

Listing NGR: SY6766580426

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599849

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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