Description

1137/0/10092 PRIDDY'S HARD
17-APR-09 Shifting Room (Building 223), to SW of
'C' Magazine

GV II
Shifting Room. 1898-9. Brick with gabled slate roof on timber trusses.

A small gabled building in 3 bays, with entrance at the NE. Small-paned lights, all to cambered heads with brick headers in two rows, and stone sills.

INTERIOR: fittings removed.

HISTORICAL NOTE: This building, prominently sited to the N of the late C18 magazine group, was built as a Shifting Room (for changing into magazine clothing) at the end of the C19, and thus relates to a key phase of expansion in the history of this site. The magazines and related structures at Priddy's Hard date from the late 18th century. The site's expansion from the mid 19th century was closely related to the development of land and sea artillery and the navy's transition from the age of sail, powder and solid shot to the Dreadnought class of the early 1900s. Priddy's Hard retains the best-preserved range of structures that relate to this remarkable history of continual enlargement and adaptation, one that encompasses that of Britain's dominance as a sea power on a global scale.

For further historical details on this site, see the description for 'A' Magazine.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26672456

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)