| Summary: | The former hospital staff accommodation block (Building 150), latterly used as a married quarters, and the hospital (Building 151) were built in 1893-4 and linked by a walled yard containing a urinal, a toilet and a small disinfecting chamber. The hospital was equipped with two wards, one with two beds and a larger one with nine beds. In the early C20 the larger ward was converted into an observation room for the Nutt range, a synthetic artillery training aid used for determining range estimation. At some time between 1922 and 1933 it reverted back to a ward room. In the late C20 the staff accommodation block was converted into a ‘B’-type (sub-standard) married quarters. Its two new entrance porches required the demolition of the yard walls and its contents.
The South-Western Camping Ground at Okehampton Camp was initially laid out between 1906 and 1924 and comprised four grassed platforms for the pitching of tents. The terraces were initially retained by three dry-stone walls measuring 45.72m (150ft) in length. At some time between 1924 and 1933 they were extended in length to 121.9m (400ft). A further two walls were added after 1933 to form a fifth terrace; one wall being equal in length to the existing walls with the other, which formed the southern boundary of the camping ground, being shorter at circa 95m in length to accommodate the meandering access road to the
officers’ mess and hospital. The camping ground housed four batteries along with a brigade HQ on the top, southern terrace. |
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