The Old Barracks

The Old Barracks is a two-storey building constructed of whitened rubble stone with a slate roof and two added blue-brick chimney stacks. The front of the building faces a courtyard and features a two-window dwelling on the left side, where the wall is rendered. This section has a replacement glazed door with an overlight to the right and a single-storey projection on the left. The upper storey contains 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows. To the right of the dwelling, the elevation displays scattered windows and added external steps leading to a first-floor porch located to the left of centre. There are 16-pane horned sash windows on both storeys to the left of the porch. Beneath the porch, there are two replacement ground-floor doorways. Further to the right in the lower storey, there is a 4-pane horned sash window and a boarded door. At the right end, there is a passage under a renewed steel lintel. In the upper storey, to the right of the porch, are four windows featuring 12-pane and 16-pane horizontal-sliding sashes.

The rear of the building, which faces the road, has a more regular appearance but the windows are arranged in three distinct sections, each with two windows set at slightly different levels. The left end is made of whitened rubble stone and includes double-boarded doors with a small pedestrian door inserted into the passage. To the right of this, there is a small-pane top-hung casement window beneath a lintel. The upper storey contains two 20-pane hornless sash windows, partly in brick surrounds. The central section, finished in scribed roughcast, features small-pane top-hung casements in the lower storey (with the right-hand possibly being an original doorway) and 20-pane hornless sashes in the upper storey, all under cambered heads. The right-hand section, also of scribed roughcast, has horned sash windows, with 16-pane in the lower storey and shorter 12-pane in the upper storey. The left gable end, facing the entrance to the Hermitage, is pebble-dashed, while the right gable end, facing the entrance to Summerhill, is finished in scribed render.