Survey Data
Reg No
22112017
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Marlfield Constabulary Barrack
Original Use
RIC barracks
In Use As
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
217351, 121763
Date Recorded
15/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former RIC barracks, built c.1860, with converted cell and extension to rear. Now private house. Pitched slate roof with lead flashing, oversailing barges, and rendered chimneystacks. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows to front wall, ground floor windows set in shallow segmental-arch recesses. Round-headed timber casement six-pane windows to front wall of porch and to middle of first floor rear, having spandrel detail and set into square-headed openings. All windows having tooled limestone sills. Double four-pane timber casement window to addition, with concrete sill. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door set in shallow segmental-arch recess. Wrought-iron gates and railings to front of site, on rubble stone plinth wall. High coursed rubble sandstone wall to rear.
Appraisal
Occupying a prominent position at a crossroads this former RIC barracks is an important part of the historical fabric of the village of Marlfield. The building retains may notable features such as the two surviving round-headed windows. The remnants of barred windows are apparent in holes still visible in the limestone windows sills. Although the jail cell has been modernised the original bar with loops for tying up prisoners still exists on an interior wall.