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Gateway And Guard House, Berwick Barracks Museum
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| CURIE | listed-building-outline:1244721 | no fact link |
| Prefix | listed-building-outline | Facts about Prefix |
| Reference | 1244721 | Facts about Reference |
| Name | Gateway And Guard House, Berwick Barracks Museum | Facts about Name |
| Quality | Authoritative: We have some data from the authoritative source | no fact link |
| Dataset | Listed building outline | no fact link |
| Organisation | Northumberland County Council | no fact link |
| Start date | 1971-05-26 | Facts about Start date |
| End date | Facts about End date | |
| Entry date | 2013-08-19 | Facts about Entry date |
| Typology | geography | no fact link |
| Geometry |
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POINT (-2.000137 55.771358)
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| Notes | NUO053 BERWICK ON TWEED PARADE (South side) 622/11/10006 Gateway and guard house, Berwick Barracks Museum 26.05.1971 GV I Barracks entrance gateway, guard house and offices now museum and mess. 1719-21, probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor, for the Board of Ordnance. Sandstone ashlar with ashlar left-hand lateral and single right-hand ridge stacks, and hipped slate roof. Vernacular Baroque style. Single-depth plinth blocks flank central gateway. EXTERIOR: single storey; 3-section range. The street front has heavy pilaster strips either side of a semi-circular archway with key and impost blocks, wrought-iron double gates, and a raised parapet above containing a gilded and painted coat of arms cartouche of George I; right-hand former guard house has 3 small flat-arched windows under the eaves, and the mess to the left has a parapet, stepped down to the left, with a single segmental-arched plate-glass sash. The parade ground elevation is similar with raised parapet to tl1e gateway, 6-window guard house with a mid C19 cast-iron glazed verandah, and 5-bay mess with 8/8-pane sashes and central inserted C20 half-glazed door. Closes the N end of the parade ground. INTERIOR: without special features. HISTORY: part of the earliest planned barrack complex in England, pre-dating most other English barracks by nearly 80 years, because of the need for a permanent garrison on the Scottish border. One of a number of Ordnance buildings at this time associated with Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh. (MacIvor I: The Fortifications of Berwick on Tweed: London: 1972-: 8, 29; Barker N in Chaney and Bold (eds): English Architecture Public and Private: London: 1993-: 199-230; Map of Berwick-on-Tweed: 1788-: PRO, WO78/1172). , | Facts about Notes |
| Listed building | 1244721 | Facts about Listed building |
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