Building record MCC3118 - Military building, Cavalry Barracks, Colchester Garrison

Summary

This building joins MCC3117, the Commissariat Reserve Stores, to MCC3119, the Wagon Shed and Commissariat Reserve Store, being a much later addition to both of these original structures.

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 9891 2422 (11m by 11m)
Map sheet TL92SE
County ESSEX
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Full Description

A building record was made in 2011, prior to demolition.

A single-storey structure with a shallow, single-pitched roof of tarred felt. The south-east elevation is of red brick laid in Flemish bond with its other walls formed by the boundary wall to the rear and MCC3117 and MCC3119 to the south and north. Two Crittall windows with window heads of soldiers are symmetrically aligned in the south-east elevation. This is mirrored in the boundary wall although the windows in this elevation have been bricked in. The interior of this building is divided around a centrally-aligned corridor with one large room on the boundary wall side and two smaller rooms on the other side. The most southerly of the latter was used as a kitchen; it is not possible to say what purpose the other two rooms had.<1>

The building is locally listed: http://www.colchesterhistoricbuildingsforum.org.uk/drupal/node/1525 [accessed 20/07/17]

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Historic Building Recording: Lister, Chris (CAT). 2011. Building recording at Area K1, the former Cavalry Barracks, Butt Road, Colchester, Essex May 2011. CAT Report 606.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jul 20 2017 3:47PM

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