Royal Arsenal Main Guardroom is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Guard house. 2 related planning applications.
Royal Arsenal Main Guardroom
- WRENN ID
- fallow-brick-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Guard house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 4479 PLUMSTEAD ROAD SE18 (North side)
786/9/45 Royal Arsenal Main Guardroom 08/06/73
GV II
Guard house, disused. 1788, built by Isaac Ashton, possibly to designs of James Wyatt. Yellow and red stock brick with limestone ashlar, ridge stacks and hipped slate roof. Single-depth plan with central archway. 2 storeys; 3-bay range. A tetrastyle Doric portico 1 bay deep with a modillion cornice, to a similarly-sized flagged recess, a central doorway with double 6-light doors with raised panels, and smaller ones to the guard houses each side. Segmental-arched ground-floor tripartite 6/6-pane sashes, and gauged brick flat heads to first-floor 6/6-pane sashes with ashlar cill band. Rear has projecting wings each side of the central entrance. INTERIOR: has cast-iron posts. HISTORY: Used by the Army when it provided guards for the site, and an important part of the C18 Arsenal. (Wesley H, The Royal Arsenal: a brief history, London, 1987, p10; RCHME report, 1994)
Listing NGR: TQ4374479030
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