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barracks — Barrack Street

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Detached eleven-bay three-storey barrack, extant 1752, on a U-shaped plan with two-bay three-storey gabled projecting end bays. Vacant, 1819; 1824. Adapted to alternative use, 1847. In alternative use, 1904. Occupied, 1920-2. In alternative use, 1923. Now in ruins. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan on collared timber construction remodelled as pitched (gable-ended) slate roof on a U-shaped plan, clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods surviving on chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick header bond cornice. Limewashed walls with remains of slate hung surface finish. Square-headed window openings in camber-headed recesses with limewashed red brick voussoirs framing remains of timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior in ruins. Set back from street in overgrown grounds.

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