History

A group of four houses built in 1840s and very similar to each other. Sphinx House, was the former first Commanding Officer’s house

Exterior

A group of four grey stone houses all set behind a shallow garden with stone walls. Sphinx House is set slightly apart from the others, to the NW; the remaining three form 3 attached 5-window blocks with central block advanced, and with higher eaves. Slate roofs with projecting eaves. All with 12-pane sash windows, and of two storeys and basement with entrance floor set above the Parade Ground and behind a small raised garden with stone retaining walls and double stone stairs; stone piers; iron railings. First floors faced with ashlar with bands at first floor levels and at eaves; ground floors and garden walls and steps rusticated. Central stone doorways with bracketed cornices on consoles; rectangular overlights. Sphinx House has a modern porch.

Reasons for Listing

Part of a fine and rare C19 Barracks complex, retaining its character. Group Value with other listed buildings on the site.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29486133

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)