Description

Circa 1880. 2-storey gabled barrack range. Bull-faced yellow sandstone with stugged dressings and chamfered arrises. Part base course. Stone mullions. Near symmetrical with metal balconies on cast-iron columns spanning between advanced bays of SE elevation.

SE ELEVATION: 2-bay advanced gable at centre with bipartite window to each floor and bay, paired arrowslits in gablehead. 3-bay balcony to left with paired windows and single doors in re-entrant angles to each floor behind. 4-bay balcony to right with door flanked by paired windows to each floor. Outer advanced gabled bays with tripartite windows to each floor, gablehead arrowslits. Recessed outer block to S with paired windows, door and 1st floor window in gabled return

Small-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Shouldered stone ridge stacks. Stone coping to stacks and gableheads.

INTERIOR: Not seen, 2000.

Statement of Interest

This building likely dates to the period around 1875-1877, when the site changed function from a military prison to the brigade depot for southeast Scotland.

Glencorse prison was complete by 1813 and cost £100,000 (Groome.) It could accommodate 6000 prisoners and a plan shows observation walkways and prison blocks radiating from a principal terrace. This form may have survived the conversion to the general military prison for Scotland in 1845, but it was demolished either by or during the conversion to the central brigade depot for southeast Scotland in 1875-1877. Greenlaw House was also demolished, though the cellars may survive in the Officers' Mess block to the southeast. Glencorse Barracks remains in use by the military.

Formerly listed as part of a group including the Keep (LB7458), the clock tower (LB44614), the chapel, terrace and stores (LB44616) and the memorial lodges, gates, gatepiers and boundary walls (LB44617).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827783

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