Description

WINCHESTER

SU 4729 SE GAR STREET
869/5/10016 Peninsula Barracks
05-SEP-00 (West side)
1-6

GV II

Barrack block, now housing. 1901-5, converted to the designs of Huw Thomas 1997. Red brick with terracotta dressings, brick front lateral and cross-ridge stacks, and slate cross-gabled roof. Georgian Revival style.
PLAN: a long H plan originally of 4 single-depth dormitories, each with a central side stack.
EXTERIOR: 4-storey, 12-window range with cambered gauged brick arches over 6/6-pane sashes. A symmetrical front showing 3 storeys to the parade ground front, with terracotta second-floor cornice and pediment mouldings; 1-window end pediments with oculi to cross ranges set forward, with 2-window ablution section in the re-entrants (now with hipped roofs), and 3-window dormitories between formerly divided by lateral stacks; similar dormitories with 3-window side elevations in the pedimented cross ranges. Rear similar with regular fenestration, 2-window end pediments, and 2 doorways to former ablution blocks, with 9-light overlights. Four pedimented doorcases, designed by the architect Huw Thomas as part of the restoration planned and completed in the 1990s: also dating from the restoration is the rear rustication to the ground floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: this is a curiously old-fashioned barracks compared with contemporary examples at Tidworth or Colchester Camps, its design showing some respect for the Upper Barracks (qqv), rebuilt at the same time. Lower Barracks was occupied from the mid nineteenth century as a hospital and prison attached to the Upper Barracks, and largely rebuilt 1901-05.
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 Q26668723

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Recommended Books

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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: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)