TM 9924 SW COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD (North West side) Colchester Garrison 584/18/10019 Former School Room, Le Cateau Barracks GV II School room, now office. c1863. Red brick with yellow brick and limestone dressings, and a slate roof. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: single storey; 6-window range. Yellow brick plinth, cill and lintel bands, and brick eaves cornice, with coped end gables. Round-arched windows with small-paned metal frames, and a central flat-headed doorway. Windows to end gables with upper oculus. Blind rear elevation. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: one of the earliest school rooms at an English barracks, with that at Lower barracks, Winchester. They were first provided in the 1840s, to raise the standard of education of the troops, 3rd provide schooling for soldiers' children. Le Cateau cavalry barracks were the first permanent .barracks built at Colchester camp. Le Cateau is the only surviving example of the new layout for c3valry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s for large-scale training camps. The school is included as part of the complex, and as a rare early school room. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 130-158; Dietz P: Garrison: Ten British Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3-22). Listing NGR: TL9925824429