Royal Citadel Married Quarters And Sergeants Quarters

PLYMOUTH

SX4653 THE BARBICAN 740-1/66/876 Royal Citadel: Married Quarters and 08/07/98 Sergeants' Quarters

GV II

Married quarters and sergeants' quarters at fort. 1895-1900, probably by T Rogers Kitsell, architect for the War Office. Dressed Plymouth limestone brought to course, rendered at rear; dry slate roof with 4 cross wing roofs, all with coped gables; wide roof dormers, in pairs between the cross wings; dressed stone axial stacks with moulded entablature. PLAN: long rectangular double-depth plan plus 4 cross wings projecting at the front. EXTERIOR: 3-storey cross wings and 2 storeys (part over basements) plus attics; the overall 12-window range front consisting of 4 symmetrical 3-bay fronts each with a central projecting cross wing as entrance porch. The cross wings have 3-light mullioned windows, the other windows are horned sashes. The 4-centred arched doorways small have flanking sidelights. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: a garrison was based at the Citadel from the late C17. The old quarters were rebuilt under the 1890 Barracks Act, and they are, with the Peninsula barracks in Winchester, a rare example of an architect-designed barracks. Married quarters were included in barracks from the 1860s, but this is, with those at Hounslow in Greater London, a good example forming part of a complete complex. (The Builder: Kitsell TR: Plymouth Citadel - new barracks and recreation block: London: 1898-: 104-105; Woodward FW: Citadel: Devon: 1987-; Saunders A: Fortress Britain: Portsmouth: 1989-).

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