Outer Bailey Arroyo Block, Gym And Regimental Association Club

CARLISLE

NY3956SE CARLISLE CASTLE 671-1/6/9 Outer Bailey: Arroyo Block, Gym and 01/06/49 Regimental Assoc. Club

GV II

Armoury, then barracks, now County Council Offices; gymnasium, now T.A. Centre; and Sergeants' mess, now regimental club. 1804 by Captain Hartcup for the Board of Ordnance; c1908-1912 extension; 1937-8 rear gymnasium and Sergeants' mess. Flemish bond brickwork on chamfered red sandstone plinth; calciferous sandstone raised quoins, string course and mouldings. Graduated Welsh slate roof with overhanging heavily dentilled eaves, gabled on return; brick ridge chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 7 bays, with left 4-bay extension built to match the rest of the building. Original building to right has central plank door in painted stone architrave. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone architraves, that over entrance is blind. Single bays at each end project and are quoined. Left extension is similar; blind windows in the projecting bay. C20 painted stone panel over entrance inscribed ARROYO, one of the battle honours of the Border Regiment. Wall-mounted clock. Return wall at right has blind windows and at right, smaller windows without glazing bars. INTERIOR extensively altered. Converted to barracks in 1827; 1840s extension demolished early C20 to be replaced by present extension. Known as Clinton Block in 1890. For full details see McCarthy et al (1990). The Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Carlisle Castle: A survey and documentary history: McCarthy MR: London: 1990-).

Listing NGR: NY3964256281