Point Barracks
Point Barracks is a former a military installation at Portsmouth Point, Hampshire. It is a Grade II listed building.History
The barracks were built to provide living accommodation for Royal Artillery units responsible for defending Portsmouth and were completed between 1847 and 1850. Point Battery, the unit occupying the barracks, was originally equipped with 68-pounder guns but benefited from improvements in artillery equipment to 64-pounder guns in the late 1890s and to 6-pounder quick-firing guns in the late 1930s.
Following disbandment of the UK's coastal artillery network after the Second World War, the barracks were decommissioned in the early 1960s and the site was acquired by Portsmouth City Council. Part of the brick structure was demolished, but the outline of the soldiers' barracks rooms is marked by stones in the ground alongside the surviving casemates.
