Gibraltar Barracks Walls And Gates

TL86SW 639-1/13/514 14/09/92

BURY ST EDMUNDS OUT RISBYGATE (North side) Gibraltar Barracks: Walls and Gates (Formerly Listed as: OUT RISBYGATE (North side) Walls and gates to former Barracks)

GV II

Boundary walls to the south, west and east of the former Suffolk Localisation depot, (now the Suffolk Regimental Museum, qv), with entrance gates and low corner turrets. 1878, by the War Office. Red brick, laid in English Bond, with some stone details. The walls are high with a high plinth and a projecting top with rounded copings. It is divided into narrow bays by sturdy full height pilasters. Along the south side 2 sections are rebuilt without any detailing. Where the ground level changes the wall is stepped at intervals. At the east and west ends of the south side are low corner turrets, crenellated, with a row of 3 slit windows along each of the outer faces. The main entrance to the Barracks on the south side has high, wide wrought-iron gates flanked by small side gates. The 4 gate piers each have 3 plain stone bands, one above the plinth, the other 2 below the stone cap, which is square with chamfered sides. Each pair of gate piers is linked above the side gates by brickwork, with a stone capping and moulded head, and carries a stone block, on the left with a shield dated 1878, and on the right with the interwoven letters VR. Also painted over the left gate are the almost obliterated words 'DEPOT SUFFOLK REGIMENT'. Included as part of a group with the former keep (qv), as forming the entrance to the depot, now demolished.

Listing NGR: TL8427664520