Former Peninsula Barracks: Royal Hussars Museum [former Militia Stores] is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1994. Museum. 1 related planning application.
Former Peninsula Barracks: Royal Hussars Museum [former Militia Stores]
- WRENN ID
- empty-rood-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1994
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Former Peninsula Barracks: Royal Hussars Museum [former Militia Stores], 7-9, Gar Street, SO23 9JW
- OS grid reference
- SU 478 294
- Coordinates
- 51.06204, -1.3186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, originally built as militia stores within the Peninsula Barracks in 1854, has undergone later 19th-century extensions and was converted to residential use after 1994. It is constructed of English bond red brick with vitrified brick headers, a brick band at first-floor level, rusticated brick quoins, and a moulded brick eaves cornice. The roof is slate, with gabled ends, and features brick lateral stacks. The rectangular building has a small, later 19th-century outshut on its south end. It is two storeys tall and sits on a tall plinth, with an asymmetrical six-window front. The windows are twelve-pane sashes, with flat brick arches on the ground floor, and smaller, near-square sashes on the first floor. A lateral brick stack slightly projects to the right of centre. Later insertions include three smaller sashes on the ground floor, a doorway on the right side of the first floor, and associated fire escape stairs. Oculus windows are located in the gable ends, and the south end features a small, later 19th-century brick outshut. The interior remains uninspected.
Local climate
Former Peninsula Barracks: Royal Hussars Museum [former Militia Stores] receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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