Former South Guard House And Attached Wall To South East, Fenham Barracks

The former South Guard House and attached wall to the southeast of Fenham Barracks in Newcastle upon Tyne was built between 1804 and 1806 by James Wyatt, who served as the Surveyor General to the Ordnance Board. This structure, which has been disused since it operated as a restaurant from 1970 to 1990, is constructed from brown sandstone ashlar and features ashlar gable stacks, with a rear brick block and a slate hipped and gabled roof.

The building has a single-depth plan with offices located to the left. The exterior is a single storey, with a windowless street front and a nine-window rear office elevation. The guard house gable is adorned with a coped pediment that includes raised corner blocks and a central raised round-headed niche in a blind recess. This niche is situated beneath an overhanging blind oriel supported by moulded stone brackets, and it contains three rifle slots beneath a blind lunette. Notably, four courses from the ground, the quoins are replaced by wide cast-iron blocks. To the right, there is a coped wall featuring a flat-headed opening and a rusticated pier that marks the former entrance to the barracks. The brick block has flat-headed openings that were boarded at the time of the last survey in 1994.

The interior was not inspected. The attached former barracks wall, which has flat coping, serves as the front wall to the office and extends approximately 400 meters to the southeast, northeast, and northwest, enclosing the southeast end of the former barracks. Historically, the Ordnance Board was responsible for artillery barracks during the Napoleonic War. This guard house is one of a pair of striking and unusual structures associated with Fenham Artillery Barracks, connected by a late 20th-century glazed archway to the gateway, which is not of special interest. It is part of a group that includes the former officers' and sergeants' messes. The barracks wall attached to Fenham Barracks East Lodge was listed on March 30, 1987.