CLOCK HOUSE BUILDING, BERWICK BARRACKS MUSEUM - List Entry
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Description
"Barracks store, later barracks and officers' mess, now museum. 1739-41, for the Ordnance Board. Sandstone ashlar with gable and axial stacks, and slate double pile roof vernacular Baroque style. PLAN: single-depth plan closing S side of parade ground quadrangle....originally built as a storehouse in the same manner as the earlier barracks, shown as such on 1788 map, and later converted to an officers' mess. Part of the earliest planned barrack complex in England, predating most English barracks by nearly 80 years because of the need for a permanent garrison on the Scottish border...." -
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Further information
Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1244772
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
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