FORMER HOSPITAL, BROCK BARRACKS

FORMER HOSPITAL, BROCK BARRACKS, OXFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375593
Date first listed:: 07-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER HOSPITAL, BROCK BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: FORMER HOSPITAL, BROCK BARRACKS, OXFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375593
Date first listed:: 07-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER HOSPITAL, BROCK BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER HOSPITAL, BROCK BARRACKS, OXFORD ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER HOSPITAL, BROCK BARRACKS, OXFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Reading (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 69309 73583

Details

SU 67 SE READING OXFORD ROAD (south side) 934/16/10013 Former hospital, Brock barracks

GV II

Barracks hospital. 1877, designed at the War Office by Mahor HC Seddon RE, supervising engineer Major Flint RE. Red brick with yellow brick bands, moulded brick heads and stone dressings; truncated ridge stacks and tiled cross-gable roof. PLAN: double-depth administrative N end and S ward with corner sanitary tower. EXTERIOR 2 storeys; 3:3-window range. An asymmetrical block with yellow sill and lintel bands and a moulded brick transom band, the administrative end has paired gables to the N and a cross gable each side, the ward range is gabled to the S, all coped on moulded kneelers; tall narrow windows with small-paned sashes, transoms and cambered heads Square sanitary tower to SE corner has narrow 4/4-pane sashes and a parapet with bracketed coping. Mid C20 extension to the side of the central W doorway, in the same style. INTERIOR: plain, the ward divided to form classrooms. HISTORY: an example of a Localisation hospital containing orderlies' rooms, offices and 2 cross-lit wards, built for the Reading Localisation depot. A standard single-ward adaptation of the pavilion plan, with the, characteristic sanitary annexe, for a brigade depot; compare with the more elaborate example at the former Norwich barracks. The Cardwell reforms redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections, and assist recruitment. Included as part of, with Bodmin, one of the two most complete surviving depots. (Watson Colone Sir HM: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).

Listing NGR: SU6930973583

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Legacy System number:: 469557
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Watson, H M, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, (1954), 157-160

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.