Building record 86/1/50 - Former Weedon Barracks, outer walls to magazine enclosure

Walls. 1807-11. Red brick in Flemish with intermediate piers and moulded stone coping. Entrances at north end, facing east and west, inserted when rail siding brought into Magazine Compound after 1899

{1} Walls. Early C19. Red brick, stone coped with portcullises either end of stretch of canal within enclosure.

{3} Walls. 1807-11. Red brick in Flemish with intermediate piers and moulded stone coping. Entrances at north end, facing east and west, inserted when rail siding brought into Magazine Compound after 1899. Bastion-like projections originally stood at each corner of the Compound. Lean-to structures, from which portcullis gates could be operated, at east and west ends of enclosure, lit by 3 segmental-headed openings and accessed by round-headed doorway and external brick steps to stone-coped balustrade. The portcullis gates to the east rise in a sandstone slot against the perimeter wall, the winding drum being set between pulleys on either side of its supporting trussed timber trestle. The structure at the west end has been modified by the infilling of the entrance and partial collapse.

Part of a unique planned military-industrial complex, complete with its own defensible transport system and surrounding walls. For full details of the site see description of Storehouse No 2.

{4} Graffiti at cSP6208 5958 ie NW corner of Powder magazine enclosure “…. Of graffiti from the 1850s to 1870s by soldiers based at Weedon Depot. It mentions their regiments (19th, 76th and 96th) and details about being sent to Ireland via Liverpool. Each brick has been signed by a different soldier. The wall is the inside of what could be called a postern situated in the damaged flank of the bastion shaped wall at SP6208 5958. When I last visited the site, most of this space within the wall was filled with sand, so a great deal of graffiti should be well preserved.”

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 16/187 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Historic England (formerly English Heritage), Ongoing, National Heritage List for England, (checked) (Website). SNN107872.

<4> Armishaw A., Graffiti at Weedon Depot, (unchecked) (Letter). SNN107052.

<5> Armishaw A., 1998, Photos of graffiti at Weedon Depot, (unchecked) (Photographs). SNN107053.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Weedon Bec (Photographs). SNN114204.

Record last edited

Dec 16 2024 12:35PM