Okehampton Camp: Building 121 (formerly a shell magazine)

This building, formerly a cartridge magazine at Okehampton Training Camp, was constructed before 1924 and has undergone minor alterations in the late 20th century.

It is made of red brick with plain fascias and bargeboards. The roof has been replaced with artificial slate and features a Boyle’s extract ventilator at the center of the ridge. The building has a rectangular plan and is aligned roughly south to north.

The exterior is a single-storey structure with entrances on each gable end, but no other openings. The principal elevation faces south and includes a central entrance with a pair of sliding timber doors. The doorway features a projecting segmental-arched lintel made of soldier bricks, which springs from pre-cast concrete corners supported by projecting brick jambs. There have been some repairs to the brickwork at the south-east corner. The side elevations are divided into five bays by plain brick piers. The rear opening mirrors the front entrance, but the sliding doors have been removed and the doorway is now blocked. The rainwater goods are modern.

Inside, the building has an open plan with a paved surface made of engineering bricks and diamond-cut blocks in the central area. The roof structure consists of common rafters with wooden tie beams and additional steel ties, and the underside of the roof is clad in horizontal timber.

In front of each doorway, there is a paved surface made of concrete, engineering bricks, and diamond-cut blocks.