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Custume Barracks — Magazine Road

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Custume Barracks — Magazine Road
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Attached three-bay two-storey over basement military prison, built c.1862. Pitched slate roof with limestone verges. Constructed of brick over limestone plinth. Narrow square-headed horizontal slit window openings with chamfered ashlar surrounds and iron bars. Square-headed doorcase with ashlar block-and-start surrounds and a timber sheeted door to side, reached by fight of cut stone steps flanked by rubble limestone parapet walls with rendered coping. Later single-storey extension to front. Located to east side of Custume Barracks.

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