Former Hospital (Building 5) Higher Barracks

The former hospital, now offices, was built in 1794 for the Barrack Department and subsequently extended and altered in the mid-to-late 19th century. It is located within the Higher Barracks complex and is constructed in a late Georgian style. The building has a single-depth plan and is two storeys high with a basement, featuring a 9-window front range. The front façade has a central doorway, with rubbed brick flat arches over 6/6-pane sash windows on either side. The left-hand return displays a shallow pediment with a brick dentil cornice and a louvred oculus above a 3-window range; the front windows here are blind, while the sashes are horned and have 6/6-pane glazing. A two-storey, late 19th-century sanitary tower is attached to the rear left-hand corner via an angled stem with a front entrance. The interior ground floor is divided by a transverse wall with a round arch connecting the spaces, with two heated first-floor rooms and a central dogleg staircase. Originally comprising six wards, a surgery, kitchen, and mortuary to the rear, the rear tower represents a characteristic mid-19th century improvement. The building is one of only three surviving regimental hospitals from this period and represents one of the least altered examples of cavalry barracks built during the first army barrack-building campaign in England, initiated at the start of the Revolutionary War with France.