Hms Nelson: Former Barracks (Building Number 14)

HMS Nelson, formerly known as Anglesey Barracks, is a former army barracks now serving as naval barracks, built between 1847 and 1848 and altered in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and features a concealed roof with brick stacks.

The exterior consists of three storeys and a window range of 3;16. It originally formed the centerpiece and right-hand wing of a longer range. The building has an ashlar plinth, a first-floor band, and an eaves cornice beneath a concrete-rendered parapet. The windows are 12-pane sashes set in reveals with flat gauged brick arches and stone sills. The entrances are double board doors with 4-pane overlights, each framed in ashlar architraves with piers, frieze, cornice, and a blocking course that extends into the first-floor band. Above each door is a tripartite window with wooden mullions and 4, 12, and 4-pane windows. The former centerpiece projects below a pediment with an oculus and features a console-bracketed plinth that once supported a statue of a lion, now located in the Wardroom garden. The wings have two left and three right bays that project slightly and include two entrances. The rear features a ground-floor iron Doric colonnade interrupted by two mid-20th century three-storey, two-bay projections. An inverted cannon barrel bollard is located at the left corner.

Inside, the entrances lead into stairhalls that feature stone stairs with stick balusters. Historically, these barracks were part of the army's Anglesea Barracks and were incorporated into the first naval barracks, HMS Victory, in 1899. This building is an interesting example of a large mid-19th century barracks and is one of the few remaining from just before the Crimean War.