Okehampton Camp: Building 94 (formerly Officers' Quarters)

This is a terrace of eight officers’ quarters, arranged as four matching pairs, built in 1894. The building is located in the south part of Okehampton Camp, near the boundary fence and adjacent to a tented campsite. Designed by James Julian, a War Office contractor, it was constructed to specifications outlined in the Royal Engineers Regulations of 1892.

The building is constructed from slate stone blockwork, with brick quoins marking the corners and window openings, and granite window cills and an entrance threshold. The gable ends and rear elevation have been rendered and painted. The pitched slate roof has plain timber bargeboards to the gable ends, which have been recently replaced. The original chimney stacks, once present to each pair of quarters, have been removed.

Each pair of officers' quarters shares an identical layout: a central corridor leads to an officer's bedroom on either side, with a servant's cleaning room situated to the rear. A later toilet block and a flat-roofed extension housing a boiler were added in 1971, and these are considered to be of no special interest.

The exterior features a front porch for each pair, with a small window and entrance flanked to the right by two windows. The rear elevation has a similar window arrangement and has been rendered. All windows are modern replacements made of uPVC, and the front doors are made of GRP material. The building stands on a slightly raised, stone-paved platform with curved corners and granite curbs, creating a path around the building with cut-outs for small grassed areas in front of each pair. A cast-iron boot scraper is fixed into the paving beside each entrance; two are missing their horizontal bars.

The interior is plain, with modest architectural detailing remaining in the hall. A timber-panelled glazed door with a four-pane light above provides access to the former servant’s room at the rear.

Certain modern features, namely the toilet block and boiler extension, are excluded from the listing under s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.