Outer Bailey Officers' Mess is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. Military officers' mess.
Outer Bailey Officers' Mess
- WRENN ID
- haunted-buttress-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1949
- Type
- Military officers' mess
- OS grid reference
- NY 396 561
- Coordinates
- 54.89678, -2.9429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Outer Bailey Officers' Mess is a building that serves as an officers' mess and regimental offices, constructed in 1876 on the site of a 1640s south-west battery, incorporating part of that earlier structure. It is made of red sandstone ashlar set on a chamfered plinth, topped with a slightly projecting and corbelled parapet. The building features a hipped roof made of graduated greenslate and has rear chimney stacks also made of red sandstone ashlar. It is two storeys high with six irregular bays.
The off-centre storeyed porch, located in bay three, has double panelled doors and an overlight, all within a stone surround and topped by a continuous hoodmould. The windows throughout the building are 12- and 16-pane sash types, set in stone surrounds and also under hoodmoulds; notably, the upper floor right window is a three-light mullion. The rear wall of the building incorporates part of the demolished battery wall. The interior has not been inspected. For further details, refer to McCarthy et al (1990). The Castle is recognized as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Outer Bailey Officers' Mess sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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