barracks — Summer Hill

Detached five-bay three-storey two-pile former military barracks, built c.1750, flanked by five-bay two-pile two-storey wings of 1832, as part of complex with surrounding buildings. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks to main block and stone to wings. Rendered limestone walls with square-headed window openings having brick surrounds, stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with iron grilles. Round-headed doorways with limestone block-and-start surrounds, spoked fanlights, replacement timber battened doors and flanked by loops to main doorway. Detached eight-bay single-storey former guardhouse to south of entrance with pitched slate and artificial slate roof, brick chimneystacks, snecked cut limestone walls and timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows with stone sills and brick surrounds. Detached three-bay single-storey building to north of entrance, having pitched slate roof, brick chimneystacks, rendered walls and timber sliding sash six-over-three pane windows with stone sills. Detached five-bay single-storey former guardhouse to north, having hipped slate roof, rendered chimneystacks, snecked cut limestone and rendered walls, dressed stone quoins, square-headed openings with render block-and-start surrounds, timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows with stones sills and with replacement timber door. Detached six-bay two-storey block to south, comprising semi-detached houses, having pitched slate roof, rendered and cut limestone chimneystacks, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings having replacement timber windows with stone sills and pair of round-headed doorways with render block-and-start surrounds, spoked fanlights and timber battened doors. Detached four-bay single-storey former stable to north, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, red brick walls, segmental-arch and square-headed openings. Main vehicular entrance flanked by square cut limestone piers set in coursed rubble walls, with pedestrian entrance having cut limestone block-and-start surround. Barracks complex is pentagonal in plan, with bastions at corners, demi-bastions flanking entrance and has rubble stone walls. Ordnance boundary stones at various points on perimeter.