Listed Building: FORMER GUARDROOM, MARINE GATE (1387086)

Includes: The Gatehouse ROYAL GATE. Guardroom at RM Eastney Barracks, now flats. c1864, designed by William Scamp, for the Admiralty Works Department; converted 1997. Red brick in Flemish bond, rear and west gable with stucco scored as ashlar; ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick stacks, rendered at rear. 2 storeys; 9 bays with portico across north side. Rusticated brick quoins and piers and arches to portico, plat band; stepped eaves; ashlar pediments to gables. Segmental-arched 12-pane sashes in reveals with stone sills. Board doors with overlights with glazing bars. Portico is of 7 + 2 bays, linking guardroom to main gate and perimeter wall (qv), and has round-arched openings at ends with segmental-arched openings between. INTERIOR: row of former cells at rear of range of which 2 retain original, vented, doors. HISTORY: William Scamp was the assistant director of the Admiralty Works Department. The carefully laid-out plan beside the seashore reflects its use by Marines; it is also probably the last large defensible barracks built in the country. Part of the best and most complete barracks of the post-Crimean War period. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: 1864-: PTM/2280).