Former Barracks and Attached Front Walls
FORMER BARRACKS AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, BEACON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375585
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Barracks and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BARRACKS AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, BEACON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375585
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Barracks and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BARRACKS AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, BEACON LANE
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BARRACKS AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, BEACON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- South Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Grantham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 92143 35883
Details
SK 93 NW GRANTHAM BEACON LANE
(East side)
607/2/10007 Former barracks and attached
front walls
GV II
Militia officers' quarters, now houses. 1858, by Henry Goddard, architect, the county surveyor, for the Royal South Lincs Militia Regiment. Red brick, front lodges coursed rubble with limestone dressings, lateral stacks and slate hipped roofs. Parallel terraces of 10 single-depth houses each with front lodges, forming a courtyard closed by N house.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 46-bay ranges, 5-window N block, 3-bay lodges. Stone lodges with pyramidal roofs and central doorways facing each other, and 2 windows to the street; parallel ranges each of ten 2-window houses, separated by a through passage with a window above; segmental-arches to doorways with overlights and flush 4-panel doors, some late C20 doors, and 6/6-pane sashes. Front lateral stacks to party walls: N block taller with central doorway, wider 6/6-pane sashes, the outer ones paired, connected to the side ranges by screen walls with doorways.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached screen walls with capped piers to the lodges form S entrance.
HISTORY : following the Militia Act of1852, counties were required to construct secure barracks for storing arms and training for the local militia, including accommodation for NCOs. Goddard built similar barracks in Lincoln for the N Lincs regiment. An interesting example of domestic planning to provide secure accommodation, and part of an unusually complete group with the former 'keep' (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 326).
Listing NGR: SK9214335883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469549
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 326
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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