Outer Bailey Arroyo Block, Gym and Regimental Association Club is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. Military structure.
Outer Bailey Arroyo Block, Gym and Regimental Association Club
- WRENN ID
- winter-hall-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1949
- Type
- Military structure
- OS grid reference
- NY 396 562
- Coordinates
- 54.8976, -2.94268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Outer Bailey Arroyo Block, Gym and Regimental Association Club in Carlisle was originally built as an armoury and later served as barracks. It now functions as County Council Offices, a gymnasium, and a regimental club. Constructed in 1804 by Captain Hartcup for the Board of Ordnance, the building underwent extensions around 1908 to 1912 and had a rear gymnasium and Sergeants' mess added in 1937-1938.
The structure features Flemish bond brickwork set on a chamfered red sandstone plinth, with raised quoins, a string course, and mouldings made from calciferous sandstone. The roof is covered with graduated Welsh slate and has overhanging heavily dentilled eaves, with gabled ends and brick ridge chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of seven bays, with a four-bay extension on the left that matches the original design.
The original section on the right has a central plank door framed by a painted stone architrave, and sash windows with glazing bars set in stone architraves, with the window above the entrance being blind. Each end of the building has projecting single bays that are quoined. The left extension mirrors this design but features blind windows in the projecting bay. Above the entrance is a 20th-century painted stone panel inscribed with "ARROYO," one of the battle honours of the Border Regiment, along with a wall-mounted clock. The return wall on the right has blind windows, with smaller windows without glazing bars located further right.
The interior has been extensively altered. The building was converted to barracks in 1827, and an extension from the 1840s was demolished in the early 20th century, replaced by the current extension. It was known as the Clinton Block in 1890. The Castle itself is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Outer Bailey Arroyo Block, Gym and Regimental Association Club 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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