Barrack And Attached Railings North Of Officers' Barracks, St George'S Barracks

GOSPORT SU 6100 MUMBY ROAD (North side) 1137-0/5/86 Barrack & attached railings N of officers' barracks, St George's Barracks 20.4.83

GV II

Barrack block, disused. 1856-59. Yellow stock brick, stone dressings and a flat roof. Double-depth axial plan. EXTERIOR: Single storey and basement; 4:4:4:4:2-window range. Near symmetrical front with a ground-floor band, cornice and parapet; 4 entrances dividing the front into sections have stone surrounds and cornices, overlights and margin lights, to C20 doors, with stairs bridging the basement area. Rubbed brick heads to 6/6-pane sashes to both levels. INTERIOR: Contains dogleg stairs from the entrances, with a front passage between rooms, and original joinery , panelled doors and plasterwork. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached cast-iron railings with panels with diagonal bars to entrance stairs and round basement areas. HISTORY: Believed to have been married quarters and containing a former school room. The barracks were a transit station for infantry built after the Crimean War. They were designed to be bomb-proof, against mortar attack, because of their location just inside the Gosport Lines. This is the only example of this type of barracks in the country, forming a complete group with the Lines earthworks, and marking Gosport's importance in the defences around the Portsmouth dockyard. (Harfield A: The Gosport Barracks, sometimes known as "New Barracks": Gosport: 1988-: 16-21; Plans of the Barracks of England: South Western District: London: 1859-: 8).

Listing NGR: SU5870301371