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Aiken Barracks — Barrack Street

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Aiken Barracks — Barrack Street
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Detached ten-bay two-storey ration store, built c. 1870. Rectangular-plan, cast-iron balcony to first floor east elevation with staircase on north gable. Pitched slate roof, roll-top slate ridge tiles, painted sheet-metal cylindrical ventilators with conical caps on square bases on ridge, red brick corbelled chimneystacks with terracotta pots, painted timber projecting bargeboards, moulded cast-iron gutters on painted timber fascia on overhanging rafter ends, circular cast-iron downpipes. Red brick English bond walling, cast-iron balcony to first floor, cast in-situ concrete deck, I-section beams, cast-iron columns on granite plinths, tubular steel balustrading. Segmental-headed window openings, brick arches, tooled granite sills, uPVC casement windows, wrought-iron bars to some windows. Segmental-headed door openings, brick arches, granite threshold steps, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, plain-glazed small-pane overlights, twisted-iron horizontal bars to balcony door to extreme south. Situated against west boundary wall of barracks complex, bitmac road surface to west.

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