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Kickham Barracks

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Kickham Barracks
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Detached eleven-bay two-storey building, dated 1876, having semi-circular towers flanking entrance. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and red brick chimneystacks, end stacks projecting from gables. Coursed dressed rubble sandstone walls having dressed limestone plinth and sill courses. Single-storey tower to west side of entrance and two-storey to east, capped with cut limestone cornices and having blocked loops with limestone sills and lintels. Square-headed window openings, doubled to entrance bay with brick surrounds, limestone sills and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Wide segmental-arch entrance with chamfered cut limestone jambs and voussoirs with date 1876 and hood-moulding. Glazed timber double-door with glazed surround.
This building is notable for the towers flanking the entrance and for the retention of timber sliding sash windows. It has a variety of well-crafted limestone, sandstone and brick walling and features.

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