Block Two (Former Officers' Quarters) Bull Point Training Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 2004. A Victorian Training centre.
Block Two (Former Officers' Quarters) Bull Point Training Centre
- WRENN ID
- crooked-grate-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 2004
- Type
- Training centre
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Block Two, formerly the Officers' quarters at Bull Point Training Centre, is a Grade II listed building dating from the 1840s. It is constructed of English bond red brick with a stone plinth and has rendered front and sides, topped with hipped slate roofs. The building features a double-depth plan with a central stair.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a seven-window range. There are rubbed brick flat arches above the right-of-centre doorway, which has a mid-20th century door and a blocked overlight, along with windows that contain horned 6/6-pane sashes. The left end has a single window, while the rear has a seven-window layout with a projecting first-floor bay supported by cast-iron columns that correspond to the stair.
The interior has been refitted as offices but retains some original joinery and a dog-leg staircase.
Historically, this building served as a defensible barracks for the guard of the nearby Bull Point ordnance yard, which was constructed for the Ordnance Board between 1851 and 1855 to protect the northern approaches of Devonport Dockyard from invasion. It is a well-preserved example of the type of defensible barracks built in the 1840s and 50s, and it is the only remaining barracks built around Devonport for the defense of the Dockyard. The closest similar example is located near the dockyard at Pembroke in Wales, while two other surviving examples in the industrial north of England, Fulwood Barracks in Preston and Hillsborough Barracks in Sheffield, have bastioned but less defensible walls.
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