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Latitude: 53.7781 / 53°46'41"N
Longitude: -2.6874 / 2°41'14"W
OS Eastings: 354795
OS Northings: 431526
OS Grid: SD547315
Mapcode National: GBR TCS.0D
Mapcode Global: WH85M.P9GH
Plus Code: 9C5VQ8H7+62
Entry Name: Racquet Court, Fulwood Barracks
Listing Date: 29 March 1982
Last Amended: 4 February 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1244768
English Heritage Legacy ID: 472876
ID on this website: 101244768
Location: Holme Slack, Preston, Lancashire, PR2
County: Lancashire
District: Preston
Electoral Ward/Division: Garrison
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Fulwood
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Fulwood Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SD53SW FULWOOD WATLING STREET ROAD
(North side)
1023/7/10008 Racquet Court, Fulwood Barracks 29.3.1982
GV II
Racquet court, disused. 1842-1848. Snecked rock-faced sandstone, roofless court and corrugated sheet lean-to roof. Single-depth court with side lean-to and rear heated room.
EXTERIOR: single storey; windowless range court. Coped open court has raking side walls up to the rear wall, a round-arched doorway with recessed door and boarded fanlight in the lower side, and on the opposite side a single-storey lean-to with mid C20 windows and outer doors. Coped wall to an enclosed room forms the outer wall, with a square lateral stack.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: forms part of the projecting SW comer which gave a field of fire along the W wall. Fives courts were common in barracks for officers' games. The barracks was built in response to anxiety over Chartist agitation. Although the south-east barrack range has been lost, the original barracks plan of 2 parade squares within a defensible perimeter wall is substantially intact, making Fulwood the most complete surviving example in England of the late C18 concept of barracks design.
(PSA Drawings Collection, NMR: MCR 58).
Listing NGR: SD5479531526
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