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Summary

The former Warrant Officers' and Staff Sergeants' quarters (Building 69) was built in 1894. The building appears unaltered in plan but both chimneystacks have been removed and the window frames and doors are replacements.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1422355: Okehampton Camp: Building 69 (formerly Warrant Officers' and Staff Sergeants' Quarters)

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• OFFICERS QUARTERS (Built, XIX - 1894 AD to 1894 AD)

Full description

English Heritage, 05/02/2015, Okehampton Camp. Building 65 and 69, Okehampton, Devon (Correspondence). SDV357840.

Notifcation that the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has decided to add Okehampton Camp: Building 69 (formerly Warrant Officers and Staff Sergents Quarters) to the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. It is now listed Grade II.

English Heritage, 05/09/2014, Okehampton Camp. Buildings 65 and 69 (formerly the Barrack Hut and Warrant Officers' and Staff Sergeants' Quarters (Report - non-specific). SDV357080.

The Warrant Officers’ and Staff Sergeants’ Quarters (Building 69) was designed by James Julian, War Office contractor, in 1892 and built in 1894. The building appears to be unaltered in plan. Both chimneystacks have been removed, the window frames and doors are replacements, and the granite cills have been rendered. There are a small number of later terracotta air vents in the façade. An adjacent shower block and boiler room (Building 68) of c.1940 is attached to the east end via a water pipe.
MATERIALS: constructed of snecked slatestone blocks with brick quoins and brick window and door openings. The interior of the walls is lined in fair faced brick. The window cills are granite. The timber roof structure is covered in Cornish slate tiles.
PLAN: aligned north-west to south-east the quarters building is rectangular on plan. It is laid out as eight bedrooms of near equal size. The four central rooms have a shared porch and internal lobby. The two rooms to each end have an external porch with entrances side-by-side.
EXTERIOR: the single-storey building is of five bays, with a central projecting porch bay to all four elevations. The north and south porches have gabled roofs, and those to the east and west are lean-to. The windows have rubbed brick flat arches, and there are a number of iron and terracotta air vents in the façade. To the side elevations the chamfered ends of the purlins are exposed. The north, west and east elevations are concrete rendered and painted. Both brick chimney stacks have been removed.
INTERIOR: the building was not inspected internally, but is thought to retain its original layout. The roof consists of timber rafters with collars supported longitudinally by a central dividing wall.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a concrete path lines the outside of the building, with granite curbs and gulleys that curve at the building’s corners.
Map object based on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Building depicted on the east side of the camp.

Wessex Archaeology, 2001, Okehampton Camp Devon. Archaeological Desk Based Assessment and Earthwork Survey, Plate 1, Appendices 1, 3, 6 (Pl. 11) (Report - Survey). SDV360511.

Francis, P., 2002, Okehampton Artillery Camp Historical Appraisal, 29, Pl. 16, Appendix 2 (Report - Assessment). SDV276160.

Built in 1894. Building 69, the warrant officers and staff sergeants quarters comprises a small symmetrical quarter block with eight bedrooms of near equal size. The four central rooms have a shared porch and internal lobby while the two at each end have an external porch with entraces side by side. The building is divided into blocks of four rooms with the corner dividing wall of each room having a fireplace. The building remains largely in its 1894 form although the chimney stacks have gone.
Adjacent to Building 69 is the warrant officers and staff sergeants ablution and shower block (Building 68). This small concrete block building was added in about 1940.

Wessex Archaeology, 2002, Okehampton Camp. Archaeological Building Recording Survey and Final Earthwork Survey Report, Plate 1, Appendices 1, 3, 6 (Pl. 11) (Report - Survey). SDV348121.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

Map object based on this source.

Historic England, 2015, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV358087.

Okehampton Camp: Building 69 (formerly Warrant Officers' and Staff Sergeants' Quarters).
Summary of Building
A former Warrant Officers’ and Staff Sergeants’ Quarters of 1894. Part of Okehampton Training Camp.
Reasons for Designation
Building 69, the former Warrant Officers’ and Staff Sergeants’ Quarters of 1894 at Okehampton Camp, is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: it has strong cultural and historical significance, within both a local and national context. The Royal Artillery Training Camp at Okehampton played an important role in the advancement of new military techniques and tactics from the late C19, including preparations for the major artillery conflicts of the modern era; * Rarity: of the three artillery training camps to have been established in the late-C19, Okehampton is the only one to survive with a legible group of contemporary buildings of note, of which Building 69 is one; * Architectural interest: a handsomely designed building, given its military use, the quarters is built using quality materials such as rubbed brick and local slate stone and granite to present one of the more successful architectural statements of this Victorian military generation; * Intactness: despite some adaptation, to be expected for the maintenance of structures in this relatively inhospitable location on the edge of Dartmoor, the original use and function of the building is legible and the building survives well; * Group value: it forms an historic group with other late-C19 camp buildings, with which it has a related use and design concept. Together they form a compact pre-mechanised transport artillery training camp; * Setting: additional and significant interest is provided by the relationship of the camp to Okehampton Range on the Dartmoor Training Area, which in part overlooks the camp and instigated the creation of the camp. It contains evidence of its late-C19 and later use by the occupants of the camp. The range is of high historic significance in itself, and the two sites should not be seen in isolation.
See listing description for full details.

English Heritage, 25/07/2014, Okehampton Camp. Building Nos. 65 and 69 (Correspondence). SDV357079.

Notification that English Heritage are undertaking a project to consider a number of the military buildings on Okehampton Training Camp for addition to the National Heritage List for England. The project was initiated by the Ministry of Defence and an inspection of the camp buildings was carried out by English Heritage in April 2014. As a result of this inspection a number of buildings have been carried forward for full assessment, including building No. 69.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6567 - Inspection of Buildings at Okehampton Camp
• EDV5539 - Okehampton Artillery Camp Historical Appraisal
• EDV5544 - Building Recording and Earthwork Survey at Okehampton Camp
• EDV3474 - Earthwork survey of Okehampton Castle and Park

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