University of Portsmouth, School of Social and Historic Studies

This is a range of barrack buildings, dating to circa 1800, which later served as headquarters for the Royal Engineers Association and then as offices for the CED Dockyard Production Control Team, and is now part of the University of Portsmouth. Bays three, four, and five of the original main range were destroyed by bombing during World War II and were subsequently rebuilt and restored around 1985.

The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with a Welsh slate roof, brick stacks at each end, and flanking the central parts. The main two-storey range comprises fifteen bays. A one-storey, fifteen-bay north-west range adjoins. The central three-bay section projects slightly and features a wide recessed brick panel set under a segmental gauged brick arch, containing two narrow 20th-century casements. Flanking this are twelve-pane sash windows, each set under a flat gauged brick arch. To the left of the central part are five unequal wood round-headed sashes, each with eleven panes and top radial glazing, also under round gauged brick arches, with a stone sill. Two of the sashes on the left have recessed brick aprons. To the right is a bricked-up doorway set under windows; all but the rightmost five windows have recessed aprons. The rightmost five windows have two-light, four-pane casements with radial glazing. At the first floor is a stone band, above which are twelve, twelve-pane unequal sashes, each set under a flat gauged brick arch. There are three taller twelve-pane sashes on the left. A brick dentilled eaves cornice is topped with a curved stone soffit. The central part features a facing stone pediment with a round-headed lunette set within a brick tympanum. The left return has a facing stone pediment with a brick tympanum and a round brick niche. The ground floor features two twelve-pane sashes each set under a flat gauged brick arch, with a wide recessed brick niche to centre, set under a segmental gauged brick arch, stone band, and two similar sashes on the first floor with a central narrow first-floor niche. The right return is similar but with flanking blinded windows at first floor. 20th-century entrances are located at the rear.

The one-storey north-west range is blinded on its north face. On its south face, from left to right, are eight twelve-pane sashes set under flat stone lintels, followed by four paired 20th-century fifteen-pane fixed metal casements. A similar single casement is located far right. Projecting entrances are situated between bays three/four and ten/eleven. A brick dentilled eaves course runs along the top.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.