East and West Guardrooms - 1815 - Woolwich Arsenal, London, UK
N 51° 29.702 E 000° 04.246
31U E 296671 N 5708945
These two octagonal guardrooms stand alongside each other at the pier entrance to the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Built in 1815 they are listed buildings and are still in use today.
Waymark Code: WMW86J
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/23/2017
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Each building has an identical plaque that reads:
East & West Riverside
Guardrooms
Grade II Listed Building
Built 1814-16
RARE
Royal Arsenal Riverside Explore
The two identical buildings have similar entries at the Historic England website that tells us:
Guardhouse. 1814, possibly by James or Lewis Wyatt. Yellow and red stock brick with limestone ashlar cornice and parapet, central brick stack and hipped 8-sided slate roof. Octagonal single-room plan. Single storey; 8-bay range. Each side has a rubbed brick segmental-arched recesses, the S entrance bay has a 6-panel door, other sides have segmental-arched 6/6-pane sashes. Interior without decorative features. One of a pair which originally flanked the river entrance to the Arsenal, originally the main entrance. The steps were removed in 1931.