The Staff College
The Staff College, London Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030033
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Staff College
- Statutory Address:
- The Staff College, London Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030033
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Staff College
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Staff College, London Road
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Staff College, London Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Surrey Heath (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 87268 60926
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 86SE
3/24
CAMBERLEY & FRIMLEY FORMER U.D.
CAMBERLEY
LONDON ROAD
The Staff College
(Formerly listed as Staff College of The Royal Military College)
GV
II
College. 1862 by Pennethorne in Victorian Country house style. Stock brick on stone plinth with channelled rustication on ground floor and dressings, quoins and centrepiece; mansard slate roofs. Three storeys and attics under flat roof sash dormer windows with decorative plat band over ground floor, cill band to second floor and heavy modillion and bracket eave cornice; stacks to return fronts under semi-circular decorations to tops. Twenty-five bay front with sash windows in moulded architrave surrounds, ground and first floor windows under hoods on brackets.
Four storey corner pavilions; angle piers and an order on all four storeys: attached Tuscan to ground floor, Ionic on first floor, antae on second and third. Balustrade with panelled piers to top. Round turret with glazed drum and ogee dome to left hand corner pavilion. Four storey three bay frontispiece with pedimented aedicule containing military trophies surmounted by a flagpole above the main cornice. Tripartite window on second floor, single window to centre of first floor with triangular pediment over on brackets. Central double panelled doors flanked by half columns in Antis with cornice projecting either side on two full columns.
Library:
Interior:-/ Edwardian panelling with Ionic pilasters. Central Roman entrance Hall, two storeys with encircling gallery. Black and White stone floor : Doric order below, Ionic order above on columned screens. Fine Ionic columned staircase.
PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p,128.
Listing NGR: SU8726860926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 287093
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 128
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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