The Canteen, Fulwood Barracks

The Canteen at Fulwood Barracks is a building constructed between 1843 and 1848 by Major T Foster for the Ordnance Board. It is made of rock-faced sandstone ashlar and features gable stacks and a slate roof, with a single-depth plan.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a six-window range. The gables are coped, and there are entrances in the center and on the right-hand side, both accessed by steps leading up to 20th-century doors. The windows are flat-headed and feature mid to late 20th-century joinery and glazing. On the left side, there is a shallow full-height projection. The right-hand return has three inserted ground-floor windows, while the rear has a six-window range, with the ground-floor windows largely obscured by a mid-20th-century single-storey extension.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the barracks were built in response to concerns about Chartist agitation. Although the southeast range has been lost, the original layout of two parade squares within a defensible perimeter wall remains largely intact, making Fulwood the most complete example in England of the late 18th-century concept of barracks design.