Listed Building: FORMER SERGEANTS MESS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS (469545)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 584, 18, 10014 |
Date assigned | 08 July 1998 |
Date last amended |
Description
TM 9924 SE COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD
(North side)
Colchester Garrison
584/18/10014
Former Sergeants' Mess,
Le Cateau Barracks
GV II
Sergeant's mess. c1861. Red brick with yellow brick and limestone dressings, brick ridge and lateral stacks and slate cross-gable roof Single-depth T-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2:3-window range. Projecting left-hand gable, yellow brick plinth, cill and lintel bands, brick eaves cornice and coped gables, ashlar flat heads to 6/6-pane sashes, which are paired on the ground floor of the projecting gable, beneath a tripartite upper window with Caenarvon arch containing simple plate tracery. A single-storey porch in the re-entrant has a raking roof and plane flat-headed doorway. Roof has a square lantern with pyramidal roof and finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: Part of the Le Cateau barracks, which were the first permanent barracks at Colchester camp. The Gothic detail exhibits an unusually ornamental approach to barracks design. Le Cateau is the last surviving example of the new layout of cavalry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s for large scale training camps.
(PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: Colchester: CTR 130-158; Dietz P: Garrison Ten British Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3-22).
Listing NGR: TL9927524451
External Links (1)
- View details on the National Heritage List for England (From EH UDS to Legacy x-reference)
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Location
Grid reference | TL 9927 2445 (point) |
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Map sheet | TL92SE |
Non Parish Area | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Record last edited
Nov 6 2019 4:47PM