Barracks Arch, Tudor-style gateway in Perth, Australia

Barracks Arch is the surviving gateway of the three-storey Tudor-style barracks designed by Richard Roach Jewell, standing at the corner of Malcolm and Elder Streets. Built of brick rather than stone, it has horizontal bands of paler brick beneath the windows and a roof of timber shingles.

Built between 1863 and 1866, it housed members of the Enrolled Pensioner Force who guarded arriving convict ships in the region. Its construction occurred during a period when the colony was establishing military infrastructure to manage security concerns.

The name Barracks Arch survives from the Enrolled Pensioner Force barracks; only the central gateway and flanking bays remain. Alistair McAlpine, in his 1999 memoir Bagman to Swagman, called the gateway "lonely, lost, irrelevant, a rebuke to the Western Australian parliamentarians" responsible for demolishing the rest. Conservation groups treat the 1966 fight as the start of their political force.

The building sits at a central intersection and is easy to reach on foot from nearby areas. You can view the facade from the street and examine the architectural features from multiple angles.

It nearly faced demolition in the 1960s to make way for a highway, but parliamentary decisions protected it following public advocacy. This was an early victory for building preservation efforts in the city.