Description

TQ 6769 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD
(West side), Brompton

3134 Officers'block & attached
front basement railings,
Brompton Barracks

GV II*

Formerly known as: Officers'range, New Royal Artillery Barrack, Chatham Lines PASLEY POAD.
Artillery, later Engineers' barracks, officers' block. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor of the Office of Works, and Lt.-Col P, D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. PLAN: axial plan of back-to-back barrack rooms with transverse stairs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 1:5:1:6:5:6:1:5:1-bay range. A symmetrical front has originally matching 14-bay ranges with cornice and parapet, connected by a central ashlar distyle in antis 3-bay section with giant Tuscan columns to an entablature and balustrade, and recessed rusticated wall with round-arched ground-floor openings, a central open archway and flanking windows, and flat-headed first-floor windows, to 6/6-pane sashes.

Listing NGR: TQ7622469144

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551659

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)