Description

SD53SW FULWOOD WATLING STREET ROAD
(North side)

1023/7/10017 Former Sick horse infirmary (Building 48),
29.3.1982 Fulwood Barracks

GV II

Store. 1843-48, by Major T Foster, for the Ordnance Board. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, rear lateral stack and slate roof. Single-depth plan backing against perimeter wall.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 5-window range. Coped end gables with central altered doorways with mid C20 doors, and small windows each side with segmental-arched lintels and tilting metal-framed windows; S side has similar small windows altered mid C20, and a mid C20 doorway in between. Inserted windows in rear perimeter wall elevation.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: included as part the original plan of the barracks, which had ancillary buildings built along the perimeter wall. Fulwood forms the most complete example in Britain of the late C18 concept of barracks design.
(PSA Drawings Collection, NMR: MCR 58).

Listing NGR: SD5474031849

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537350

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas