The Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Bassetlaw local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Barracks
- WRENN ID
- sombre-chalk-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bassetlaw
- Constituency
- Bassetlaw MP: Jo White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Barracks, Old Blyth Road, Babworth, DN22 8JH
- OS grid reference
- SK 648 820
- Coordinates
- 53.33178, -1.02729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Barracks is a house that was formerly six cottages, built around 1830. It features red brick and ashlar construction with a tiled roof and stone-coped gables that have kneelers. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, each topped with a gable; the central gable is smaller, and there is an additional gable at the end of the cross wing. The outer window bays slightly project from the main structure.
There is a central single-storey gabled brick porch that is corbelled out near the top, with ashlar at this point, an ashlar-coped gable with kneelers, and an entrance arch made of ashlar with two decorative voussoirs. The inner doorway is arched and features a 20th-century glazed door with an overlight. On either side of the porch are single three-light glazing bar casements with wooden mullions and ashlar surrounds. Above these, there are three similar casements and surrounds, although the central one has only two lights. Each of the outer gables has a decorative arrow loop, while the central gable features a decorative blank ashlar shield. The gable stack, which slightly projects at the top, also has a similar ashlar shield.
The south front of the cross wing mirrors the main front, but all the windows here have two lights with glazing bars, and all gables are decorated with a single arrow loop. The inner porch doorway on this side is not arched. The other sides of the building have 19th and 20th-century extensions and alterations.
Local climate
The Barracks sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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