Police Barracks

The police barracks, built in 1861, is a notable structure designed by the Admiralty Works Department, specifically by Colonel Greene and William Scamp, who is credited as the designer of the guardhouse and police barracks. The brickwork for the building was contracted to Messrs Rigby of London.

Constructed from red brick in Flemish bond with limestone dressings, the police barracks is located just inside the main north-east entrance to the gunboat yard, positioned to the south of the guardhouse. The two buildings were originally designed as approximate mirror images of each other, each roughly square with a central courtyard.

The front elevation of the single-storey police barracks features a colonnade of eight bays, characterized by round arches and square piers. The piers are equipped with dressed stone bases and springers for the arches. A stone band runs along the base of the parapet, while the hipped roofs and chimneystacks, which have brick detailing at their heads, are just visible above. The windows throughout the structure have round or segmental-arch brick heads and stone cills. The interior has not been inspected.