Details
Three of four concrete barrack blocks, Nos 2-4, at the former Royal Engineers Barracks, later Burgoyne Barracks, at Shorncliffe Camp. Dated 1881.

MATERIALS: rendered, mass concrete with later C20/early C21 slate composite roofs and uPVC eaves and fascias.

PLAN: three of four single-storey blocks aligned approximately east-west. No 2 originally laid out as soldiers’ quarters, divided into two large rooms with a separate NCO’s room adjacent to the entrance. Now offices. It is linked to Block 1 to the south by a C20 ablutions block which replaces night soil facilities. No 3 had been re-ordered as offices retaining the large eastern room. No 4 has been opened up as offices, retaining the principal transverse wall and chimney breasts.

EXTERIOR:
Constructed of mass concrete, the proportions and architectural details are modelled on the brick or stone equivalents at other barracks, having concrete quoins and plinths imitating brick, stone or render, and round-arched or segmental-headed rendered window and door architraves and cills. The east elevations have paired round-arched windows below a roundel inscribed RE with the date 1881 below within a lozenge-shaped panel between the windows; they are numbered consecutively from south to
north. The west elevations replicate the paired windows of the east elevations. In 2013 all have replaced uPVC sashes in original openings, although one window on the northern elevation of Block 4 retains its vertical sliding shutter or light baffle. The north elevation of Block 4 has a pair of double doors, the eastern pair of ledge and batten construction, both sets now blocked internally. The pedestrian entrance also has a ledge and batten door beneath a small-paned glazed overlight. Elsewhere, doors are
flush panel or part-glazed C20 replacements, beneath plain overlights.

INTERIOR
In Block 4 the internal transverse chimneybreasts are visible but blocked, the ceiling panels indicate the position of the southern lateral stack; it also has one four-panel door. Blocks 3 and 4 have higher specification board and batten ceilings, that tend to denote officer use.

English Heritage, 2013, English Heritage (Listing) Advice Report for Concrete Barrack Blocks 1-4, Burgoyne Barracks, Shorncliffe Camp (Unpublished document). SKE25231.