New Military Barracks

The New Military Barracks provide an excellent and rare example of a pre-1850 fortified military compound. It was completed in 1837 in response to a need for greater protection of the soldiers from possible convict uprisings. It complex housed 164 soldiers and four sergeants, and contained a soldiers' barracks, officers' quarters, an ammunition magazine, a military hospital - used initially as a ballroom - and various outbuildings.