Former Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers' Barracks

The former Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers' Barracks, built in 1859 and designed by Edwin Thompson of Derby, is now used as a store, houses, public toilets, and a tennis club. The building features red brick with ashlar dressings and shallow hipped slate roofs with brick stacks. Surrounding the site is a 3-meter-high perimeter wall made of red brick with a blue brick plinth and ashlar coping, which includes diagonally set buttresses at regular intervals. The main gateway to the east has two square gate piers topped with pyramidal ashlar caps and an iron over-throw.

On either side of the gateway, there are single-storey guard houses that have been converted into public toilets, featuring alternating plank doors with overlights and glazing bar sash windows. The south-west side of the barracks has the original rifle range, which is covered by a continuous lean-to supported by cast iron columns, with the southern section glazed in to create a tennis pavilion.

The north-west side contains the main barracks building, which is two storeys high with a symmetrical facade featuring seven windows. There are central doorways on both floors under segmental brick arches with double iron doors, and the upper doorway has a balustrade. Flanking the doorways are three glazing bar iron windows on both floors. The north-east side features former officer's accommodation, consisting of a two-storey block with a four-window centre and projecting single-window side wings. This section has two central glazing bar sashes flanked by single four-panel doors and single blocked doors, with additional glazing bar sashes beyond. Above, there are four smaller glazing bar sashes. The projecting wings have similar sashes below and smaller sashes above. The sides of the building include single central doors with side sashes and smaller central sashes above. There are also former privies and wash houses located at the rear.

This site is a very rare and well-preserved example of a local volunteer barracks.