A guardhouse (also known as a watch house , guard building , guard booth , guard shack , security booth , security building , or sentry building ) is a building used to house personnel and security equipment. Guardhouses have historically been dormitories for sentries or guards, and places where sentries not posted to sentry posts wait "on call", but are more recently staffed by a contracted security company . Some guardhouses also function as jails.
7-768: (Redirected from Watch House ) [REDACTED] Look up watch house in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Watch house may refer to: Guardhouse , a building used to house personnel and security equipment Watchhouse, a small prison attached to a police station The Watch House , 1977 novel Watch House Village , village in Ireland Watch House Terrace , row of terraced house in Australia Watch House Battery , 19th century artillery battery Topics referred to by
14-426: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Guardhouse In 21st century commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental, or residential facilities , Guardhouses are generally placed at the entrance as checkpoints for securing, monitoring and maintaining access control into the secured facility. In the case of small to mid-sized facilities, generally,
21-755: The 21 sentry posts around the town. The town had five Guardhouses (the Dauphine Gate, the townside entrance to the King's Bastion, the Queen's Gate, the Maurepas Gate, and the Pièce de la Grave), and whilst not sleeping sentries would be "on call" from those Guardhouses at need. In the Guardhouse at Fort Scott National Historic Site , typical furnishings for guard quarters included benches, tables, shelves,
28-468: The 21st century, guardhouses have provided more options such as exterior floodlights, reflective bullet resistant glass, gun ports, elevated platforms, highly mobile trailer mounting, anti fatigue floor mats, dimmable interior light, and a built in bathroom. In the Fortress of Louisbourg in the 18th century, Guardhouses were where sentries were stationed to eat and sleep between periods of sentry duty at
35-591: The entire physical security envelope is controlled from the Guardhouse. One of the general orders of a sentry in the United States Navy and Marine corps is to "Repeat all calls more distant from the guardhouse than my own." Guardhouses thus serve as central communications hubs for outlying sentry posts, being where the Corporal of the Guard is stationed. When sentries are relieved by their replacements,
42-419: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Watch house . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Watch_house&oldid=1144400016 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
49-427: The sentry stationed at the Guardhouse, designated "No. 1", is conventionally relieved first. Modern guardhouses are manufactured with welded, galvanized steel construction, insulated, include heat and light, have 360 degree visibility, and can also be bullet resistant. These guardhouses keep security guards comfortable as well as secure. The first modern guardhouse was manufactured by Par-Kut International in 1954. In
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