Keep And Attached Gateway, Former Stoughton Barracks

This building, originally an armoury, guard house, and store with an attached gateway, dates to 1876. It was designed by Major HC Seddon RE for the War Office and converted into flats in 1994. Constructed in brick with Portland ashlar, terracotta, and yellow brick dressings, it is built in a Fortress Tudor Gothic Revival style, featuring lateral stacks and a flat asphalt roof.

The building has a square plan with stair towers in the left and rear right corners. It is four storeys high and has a 3:3:1-window front. The ground floor is battered and features moulded drip mould, cill, and impost bands of terracotta, surmounted by a crenellated parapet raised on the splayed corners. The projecting towers have similar decorative elements and pseudo machicolation. The windows are metal-framed with chamfered heads and cills. The right-hand side includes a cast-iron verandah. The interior was reportedly constructed with fire-proof jack-arches, cast-iron columns, and stone open-well stairs in the towers, though this has not been inspected.

Attached to the right-hand side is a gateway with a crow-stepped gable, ashlar coping, and yellow brick side panels. It has a moulded segmental archway with swept iron spear-headed double gates and raised lozenge panels inscribed "18 VR 76". Flanking wickets have spear-headed iron gates.

Historically, the building contained a ground-floor guard room and fire engine garage, with gun and clothing stores on the upper floors. The keep served as a secure armoury, store, guard house, and lock-up, representing a characteristic feature of the Localisation depots, which were part of the Cardwell reforms intended to strengthen local connections and recruitment. As such, the keep served to raise the local profile of the barracks. This type of building is rare, with only ten known surviving examples. Despite its conversion, the Stoughton keep remains a significant local landmark.