A Unique Property in Wales - £500,000
Old Defensible Barracks, Pembroke Dock, Dyfed
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The Defensible Barracks at Pembroke Dock, is a Grade II* Listed Victorian-era fortification and barracks in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is a huge, renaissance style, 20-sided stone fort surrounded
by a dry moat. A parade ground occupies the centre of the fort, enclosed by blocks of barrack
rooms, mess areas, magazines and gun sheds.
The basements contained areas for laundry, stores, latrines and magazines. The barracks was built between 1841 and 1846 to house the dockyard’s garrison of Royal Marines and to cover the landward side of the dockyard from an infantry assault. It was probably the last ‘trace bastion’ fort built in Europe.
The fort is entered through a north gatehouse complete with holes for muskets and winches for the former sliding drawbridge. The Courtyard and parade ground is surrounded by elevations of a fine Georgian-style square with pedimented centrepieces on three sides and attractive 12-pane
sash windows in flush surrounds throughout.
