The Old Barracks

The Old Barracks is a former armoury, now used for offices and storage, built in 1857. It features rock-faced snecked limestone with vermiculated dressings and has a flat roof covered with roofing felt. The building is designed in a large mock castle style, with square and round towers on the left and right, and a three-storey square tower with a stair turret in the center. It has two storeys and a cellar, with a nine-window range.

On the first floor, there are eight groups of paired and triple lancets with trefoil heads, set in chamfered stone surrounds with iron casements beneath relieving arches. The center features an oriel window with four similar lancets, while the second floor of the central tower has one similar lancet. The ground floor includes seventeen single lancets and a pair of diagonal boarded doors with decorated strap hinges in a chamfered stone surround, topped with a four-centred arched head. The building has a deep battered plinth made of darker grey stone, a moulded stone cornice supported by brackets, and an embattled parapet. The stair turret on the central tower has a bold machicolated embattled parapet, and there are arrow slits and cruciform slits on the central tower, stair turret, and the circular tower to the right.

The rear elevation is similar but has an exposed basement due to the slope of the ground, featuring an arcade and windows with elliptically-arched openings. A probable former ramped approach to double doors on the ground floor has been removed.

Inside, the building has undergone alterations in the 20th century. The entrance hall features a vaulted ceiling with moulded stone ribs, and there are cast-iron doors leading to the ground floor corridor and stairs to the basement, as well as similar iron shutters on the windows in the ground floor corridor and in the ground floor room of the circular tower. The first floor has ceilings of vaulted fire-proof construction. The Old Barracks was originally constructed as the armoury for the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia.