Okehampton Camp: Building 82 (formerly Harness Room 1)

Former harness store, latterly a target store, at Okehampton Training Camp. Built 1894 by James Julian, War Office contractor. Some late-C20 alterations.

MATERIALS: constructed from random cut and squared slate stone with brick quoins under a gabled slate roof. The west gable end and rear wall are rendered. The square-headed openings have brick surrounds with lintels of rubbed bricks, and the windows have chamfered granite sills.

PLAN: rectangular on plan and aligned west to east. The interior was originally open plan, although a partition wall has subsequently been inserted.

EXTERIOR: the entrance front (north) has a central entrance with a pair of timber doors, approached by a stone step, and an overlight of five panes. To either side is an eight-pane timber casement set high in the wall. The gable walls each contain two timber windows, three of which appear to have either had their glazing bars replaced or have been re-framed; only the sixteen-pane window in the east elevation appears original. The rear, south-facing elevation has two openings set high in the wall which contain modern uPVC windows.

INTERIOR: the upper parts of the walls are faced with painted fair-face brick and the lower parts are rendered. All the openings have segmental heads internally. The original timber cladding has been removed; a false ceiling has been inserted in the eastern half of the building and a transverse partition wall has also been introduced. The roof consists of Queen post trusses, two rows of purlins and diagonal timber board cladding to the underside of the roof.

Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 ('the Act') it is declared that the modern partition wall and false ceiling within the building are not of special architectural or historic interest and are not included in the listing.