Cambridge Barracks

The barracks were created by converting some late-18th century warehouses into military accommodation in 1825. The site had previously been a large timber-yard and carpenters' workshops; it was purchased by the government during the Napoleonic Wars and converted into an 'immense' stores complex for the Commissariat . These former warehouses are still in place, forming an asymmetrical open courtyard at the south-west end of what is now Portsmouth Grammar School: they stand three storeys high and originally contained open-plan store rooms accessed through external hoist doors on each storey. In October 1825 each floor was converted to form barrack rooms; the 9th Regiment was the first to occupy the new barracks. At that time a guard-house formed the fourth side of the quadrangle.

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