Honourable Artillery Company Barracks - City Road, London, UK
N 51° 31.384 W 000° 05.242
30U E 702052 N 5712016
This building, that was the former barracks of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), is on the west side of City Road to the south of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground.
Waymark Code: WMGX0E
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/18/2013
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The building is Grade II listed with
the chimneys being mentioned in the listing at the English
Heritage website that tells us:
"Barrack buildings for the
Honourable Artillery Company. 1857. By Joseph A. Jennings. Dressed stone with
ashlar dressings, roof obscured by parapet. Three and four storeys over
basement, eleven-window range to City Road. The building is castellated in
style, with Tudor details. Projecting centrepiece of three bays, designed as two
four-storey towers flanking the entrance, with wings of four bays on either
side, terminating in corner towers. The central segmental-pointed-arched
entrance, with two-storey mullioned-and-transomed segmental-pointed-arched
window over, is set in a recess in the centrepiece under a similar arch; the
middle stage of the window consists of blank panels with carved coat of arms.
For the rest, the windows are all flat-arched and generally of two and three
lights, bartizans to the corner towers, the centrepiece and bartizans
machicolated, the ranges between corbelled. In addition to the common
chimneystacks which are rectangular in plan, there are two to the centrepiece
and linked pairs to each of the corner towers which are octagonal and faced with
ashlar. The north and south returns continue the elevational treatment, with
an eight-window range to the north and seven-window range to the south; except
that at the fourth bay the front is recessed in plan on a chamfer and the
parapet ceases to be embattled, and that the window details are simpler.
Cast-iron railings and gates with double rail, coat of arms of the Honourable
Artillery Company on the standards, and spearhead
finials."