Point Barracks

Point Barracks is a former a military installation at Portsmouth Point, Hampshire. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]

Point Barracks
Portsmouth
The remains of Point Barracks
Point Barracks
Location within Hampshire
Coordinates50.79045°N 1.10865°W / 50.79045; -1.10865
TypeBarracks
Site history
Built1847-1850
Built forWar Office
In use1850-Present

History

The barracks were built to provide living accommodation for Royal Artillery units responsible for defending Portsmouth and were completed between 1847 and 1850.[1][2] Point Battery, the unit occupying the barracks, was originally equipped with 68-pounder guns but benefited from improvements in artillery equipment to 64-pounder guns in the late 1890s and to 6-pounder quick-firing guns in the late 1930s.[3]

Following disbandment of the UK's coastal artillery network after the Second World War, the barracks were decommissioned in the early 1960s and the site was acquired by Portsmouth City Council.[4] Part of the brick structure was demolished, but the outline of the soldiers' barracks rooms is marked by stones in the ground alongside the surviving casemates.[5]

References
  1. "18 Gun Battery and Flanking Battery, Kings Stairs, Sallyport, Point Barracks". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  2. "To builders, Royal Engineer's Office, Portsmouth" (PDF). Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle. 18 November 1854. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  3. "Point Battery" (PDF). Victorian Forts. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  4. "The Square and Round Towers". Portsmouth Guide. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  5. "The Round Tower". Portsmouth Museums. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
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