c.1874 FLG 1 is a long two storey office building in yellow stock Flemish bonded brickwork with a slate roof. The interior has mostly original joinery including doors, stair rails, window frames, sash windows and cupboards. There is a gateway with timber gates, probably original, remaining between this building and the adjacent G Block. The building is in good condition and relatively intact. FLG1 forms a group with G Block, FLG 5/6, and FLG 7/8. Based on information from Colchester Garrison: Historic Building Assessment, Ingram Consultancy (Ingram 2000) which considers this to be a building of primary significance within the Artillery Barracks (Flagstaff / DCTA) group of buildings. [Garrison Buildings Group 1] Ingram: building quality B Ingram: group value B -------- Chbf: -------- [In 1866, Colchester became the headquarters of the Army's newly-formed Eastern District, and it was one of the Army's four 'great camps' in Britain (with Aldershot, Shornecliffe, and the Curragh near Dublin). In 1872, the Military Localisation Bill provided the blueprint for the expansion and reorganisation of the British Army, which was led by Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell. Britain was sub-divided into 66 districts for infantry regiments, 12 for artillery regiments and 2 for cavalry regiments (Douet 1998); infantry, artillery and cavalry regiments were stationed at Colchester camp. The brick Cavalry Barracks at Colchester were built in two phases in 1862-4. The brick Artillery Barracks were built next to the Cavalry Barracks in the early 1870s, in the Army's great localisation programme after 1872. The infantry in Colchester were housed in the hutment barracks between Mersea Road and Military Road until 1896, from which date the huts were replaced by brick barracks (1896-1904, Hyderabad and Meeanee Barracks; Douet 1998).] References: Douet 1998 VCH 9 Ref. in Pevsner: '... NAPIER ROAD. Two pairs of houses erected commanding officers of the artillery barracks, 1868. Stock brick with rusticated quons and deep eaves. Plainer blocks along Flagstaff Road 1874-80 ...' etc, p.281, in "The buildings of England: Essex", by Bettley and Pevsner. [Dr James Bettley is a member of the Colchester Historic Buildings Forum. The series of Pevsner volumes on the architecture of England are a famous and authoritative guide to the best examples of architecture in the country, by county, which are in the process of being updated (2012).] Converted to residential in 2016.