Keep, Fulwood Barracks

The Keep at Fulwood Barracks is an armoury and store built between 1870 and 1880. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features an asphalt flat roof. The building has a single-depth plan with projecting corner stair towers.

The exterior is three stories high and has a window arrangement of 3:4:3. The left-hand stair tower is taller than the right-hand one, both featuring a plinth and a dentil parapet. The right-hand tower has a flat-headed doorway with a 20th-century door on its inner side. The central section contains 6/6-pane sash windows, while the stair towers have stepped glazed loops, with two on the left side, one on the right, and three on the top floor. The side ranges have three windows, and the rear features four pairs of late 20th-century 4/4-pane casements.

Inside, the building includes cast-iron columns and rolled metal joists. The stair towers have dogleg stairs with metal balusters and moulded newels.

Historically, the Keep was not shown on maps from around 1850 and resembles designs for armouries from the 1870s by Cardwell. Although the southeast barrack range has been lost, the original layout of two parade squares within a defensible perimeter wall remains largely intact, making Fulwood the most complete surviving example in England of late 18th-century barracks design.