Okehampton Camp: Building 69 (formerly Warrant Officers' and Staff Sergeants' Quarters)

The former Warrant Officers’ and Staff Sergeants’ Quarters at Okehampton Camp was built in 1894, designed by James Julian, a War Office contractor.

This building is made of snecked slatestone blocks, with brick quoins and brick openings for windows and doors. Inside, the walls are lined with fair faced brick, and the window sills are made of granite. The timber roof structure is covered with Cornish slate tiles.

The quarters are arranged in a rectangular plan aligned from north-west to south-east, consisting of eight bedrooms of nearly equal size. The four central rooms share a porch and internal lobby, while the two end rooms each have an external porch with side-by-side entrances.

The single-storey building features five bays, with a central projecting bay on all four sides. The north and south porches have gabled roofs, while the east and west porches are lean-to. The windows have rubbed brick flat arches, and there are several iron and terracotta air vents on the façade. The side elevations show exposed, stop-chamfered ends of the purlins. The north, west, and east elevations are covered with concrete render and painted. The window frames, doors, fascias, and rainwater goods have been replaced with modern materials, and both brick chimney stacks have been removed.

Although the interior was not inspected, it is believed to retain its original layout. There are replacement fire doors and uPVC window sills. The roof consists of timber rafters with collars supported by a central dividing wall.

A concrete path runs alongside the building, with granite curbs and gullies that curve at the corners. An adjacent shower block and boiler room (Building 68), built around 1940, is connected to the east end by a water pipe but is not of special interest.