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Latitude: 50.4 / 50°23'59"N
Longitude: -4.1986 / 4°11'54"W
OS Eastings: 243842
OS Northings: 57879
OS Grid: SX438578
Mapcode National: GBR R12.94
Mapcode Global: FRA 273Z.S3X
Plus Code: 9C2Q9RX2+XH
Entry Name: Block Two (Former Officers' Quarters) Bull Point Training Centre
Listing Date: 22 June 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390867
English Heritage Legacy ID: 492318
ID on this website: 101390867
Location: Riverside, Plymouth, Devon, PL5
County: City of Plymouth
Electoral Ward/Division: St Budeaux
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Plymouth
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Tagged with: Architectural structure
740-1/0/10043 FOULSTON AVENUE
22-JUN-04 St Budeaux
(South side)
Block Two (former Officers' quarters),
Bull Point Training Centre
GV II
Officers' quarters within fort, now training centre. 1840s. English bond red brick with stone plinth, rendered front and sides, with hipped slate roofs.
PLAN: Double-depth plan with central stair.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 7-window range. Rubbed brick flat arches to right-of-centre doorway with mid-C20 door and blocked overlight, and windows with horned 6/6-pane sashes. Single-window left end, 7-window rear has a projecting first-floor bay on cast-iron columns corresponding to the stair.
INTERIOR: refitted as offices, retaining some original joinery and dog-leg stairs.
HISTORY: this defensible barracks was built for the guard of the nearby Bull Point ordnance yard, which was erected for the Ordnance Board between 1851 and 1855, and to protect the northern approaches of Devonport Dockyard from invasion. This is a very complete and unaltered example of a defensible barracks of the type built in the 1840s and 50s, and is the only barracks built around Devonport for the defence of the Dockyard which still remains. The closest example of such a defensible barracks is located close to the dockyard at Pembroke in Wales, the 'police barracks' in the industrial north of England having two survivals (Fulwood Barracks, Preston, and Hillsborough Barracks, Sheffield) which also retain bastioned but less defensible walls.
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