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ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY BARRACKS The Royal Horse Artillery Barracks was located on the north side of Granby Row, which ran from Marlborough Street eastwards to join Granby Street. For nearly a century it had been the Marlborough Square Barracks. In December 1854 the Royal Engineer's Office at Devonport issued a notice inviting tenders for the construction of barracks and stables for the Royal Horse Artillery. The site was to comprise quarters for six officers and their servants; a range of stables with harness rooms; artillery stores, and ablution rooms on the ground floor with soldiers' quarters over; an infirmary with stables and yard; a forage barn for hay, straw, and corn; a forge, shoeing shed, pharmacy, and cooking house; a guard house and cells; orderly room and workshops; privies; dung and ash pits; plus the enclosure walls, gates, side doors, roads, parades and drains.
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