Listed Building: HMS TEMERAIRE, OLD GYMNASIUM, NOW SQUASH COURTS (1386908)

Army physical training and drill hall, now naval squash courts. c1860-65, fire-damaged 1970s; restored and converted 1984-6. Yellow brick in Flemish bond. Replacement slate roof. EXTERIOR: one storey, with gallery across south end. 1:8 x 3 bays. Chamfered plinth. Rusticated pilaster strips at angles, supporting open pediments on gable elevations (north and south). Round-arched recesses contain round-arched windows with metal glazing bars (1980s, reproducing previous windows); stone sills; double impost band. Stepped dentilled eaves. Ashlar kneelers to brick gable coping. West and east elevations have windows arranged 2:4:2. North elevation has 3 blind window openings, a door inserted in left one, and 3 pointed-headed niches above. South elevation has lower, gabled, projection with flat-roofed side wings. Round-arched recess contains segmental-arched doorway with double door and overlight; round-arched windows to either side and above; stepped plat band; similar windows to side-wings which have blocking courses; ridge stack. INTERIOR: at south end, a 3-bay round-arched arcade at gallery level with 2 iron columns and stone imposts at ends; blocked roundel to gable. Roof structure all of 1980s date. The building was erected on the site of former town defences when those were discarded; it appears on the first OS Map of 1865/70.