Royal Artillery Barracks Gun Park Block is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Military barracks. 1 related planning application.

Royal Artillery Barracks Gun Park Block

WRENN ID
hushed-cobble-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Greenwich
Constituency
Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 June 1973
Type
Military barracks
Address
Royal Artillery Barracks Gun Park Block, Repository Road Se18, SE18 4BG
OS grid reference
TQ 428 782
Coordinates
51.48525, 0.05659
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Artillery Barracks Gun Park Block is an early 19th-century, single-storey building with five bays. The three central bays project slightly and are topped with a pediment featuring a stone cornice above brick dentils. In the tympanum, there is a round window with wooden louvres and a gauged brick surround. The building has a low-pitched, hipped slate roof and brick dentil cornices at the eaves, which continue across the front below the pediment. The walls are made of multicoloured stock brick with a brick plinth.

There are round-headed windows set in round-arched recesses, which have a stone impost band. The arched door opening is similar in proportions to the recesses, with all arches made of gauged brick. The sash windows feature glazing bars and have radial heads. The double door has a cornice head aligned with the impost band and a radial fanlight with outer margin lights. On either side of the main block, there are lower, single-storey wings with three windows each. These wings have hipped slate roofs and a brick dentil eaves cornice that aligns with the impost band of the main block. The wings are constructed from multicoloured stock brick, with flat angle pilasters and a plinth, and they feature recessed panels below the sash windows, which are also under gauged brick arches.

Local climate

Royal Artillery Barracks Gun Park Block sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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