[1] The officers' mess, designed by James Wyatt, was completed around the same time.

[2] Soldiers' duties included putting down the Chartism movement riots in the 1840s.

[1] In 1846 units of the Royal Horse Artillery arrived and in 1873 a system of recruiting areas based on counties was instituted under the Cardwell Reforms and the barracks became the depot for the two battalions of the 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot.

[4] The Durham Light Infantry museum opened at Fenham Barracks shortly after the First World War[5] but moved out to Brancepeth Castle when the regiment transferred there in 1939.

In 1975 the barracks became the home of 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars; they moved out in 1992 when the regiment was amalgamated to form part of the Light Dragoons.