Aiken Barracks — Barrack Street

Detached ten-bay three-storey former linen manufacturing building, built c. 1790, converted to use as barracks, c. 1825. Oblong on plan, single-storey lean-to garage to east. Hipped slate roof, stone ridge tiles, clay hip tiles, unpainted smooth rendered chimneystacks, corbelled to west, cast-iron gutters on wrought-iron drive-in brackets, circular cast-iron downpipes. Unpainted roughcast rendered walling to south elevation, smooth render to east elevation, ashlar granite eaves corbel course, loop above round-headed opening to west infilled with concrete block, original bull-nosed granite pivot blocks survive. Square-headed window openings, unpainted smooth rendered slightly-projecting reveals and soffits, granite sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings, tooled ashlar stone Gibbsian surround to east doorway, unpainted smooth rendered reveals and soffit to central doorway, painted slightly-projecting smooth rendered reveals and soffit to west doorway, deeply recessed opening to extreme west doorway, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, plain-glazed overlights, metal door to extreme west opening, granite steps to door thresholds; segmental-headed arched opening with central projecting brick pier, painted smooth rendered surround. Situated to north-west of military barracks, entrance gates to west.