Description

SU 4729 SE ARCHERY LANE
869/5/10013 Peninsula Barracks
05-SEP-00 (North side)
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II

Guard house; later post office, now house. 1901-5. Red brick with terracotta dressings, central brick cross-ridge stack and slate roof. Georgian Revival style. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: one-and-a-half storeys; 6-window range. A regular front with rusticated brick quoins, frieze, and coped end gables with a terracotta string and oculus; a verandah on iron posts extends along the front. Ground-floor segmental-arched 6/6 pane sashes, above the verandah are small segmental-arched openings with keys rising into the frieze, the 2 to the left more widely-spaced with 8 panes, 3 to the right with 15 panes. A left-hand single-storey section with hipped roof, these being the former cells with inserted garage door; sash window and barred cell window to left-hand side elevation.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: an unusually ambitious example of a guard house, to the Southgate Street entrance to the barracks. Lower Barracks was occupied from the mid nineteenth century as a hospital and prison attached to the Upper barracks, and largely rebuilt 1901-5. It forms a complete functional assemblage of late Victorian/Edwardian barrack buildings, and contributes to the considerable overall significance of the Peninsula Barracks site.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668722

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)