Ballard'S Smoke House Clifford'S Fort And Boundary Stones Attached

Ballard's Smoke House, located at Clifford's Fort, is a smoke house that was formerly a barracks building, along with two military fort boundary stones. It was constructed around 1920 on the site of a mid-19th century military building, while the boundary stones date from the same period. The smoke house features sandstone rubble in the lower rear courses, a brick ground floor with varying bonds and sandstone dressings, and weatherboarded upper sections topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high with three bays, and a single bay rises to three storeys on the right. It has a central sliding door, a flat stone lintel, and a projecting stone sill above a blocked window on the left side of the ground floor. The weatherboarded first floor includes horizontal sliding sash windows, and the three-storey section has top-hung weatherboarded ventilator shutters. A long louvred ridge ventilator is present, featuring four tall ventilator stacks. The boundary stones are square blocks set into the rubble of the north wall, positioned about 1.5 metres above ground, with one inscribed "WD/BS/No. 15" and another on the west face of the north-west corner, about 150 cm above ground, inscribed "WD/BS/No. 16".