South East District Headquarters Building of General Officers Commanding
SOUTH EAST DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS BUILDING OF GENERAL OFFICERS COMMANDING, STEELES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092611
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- South East District Headquarters Building of General Officers Commanding
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH EAST DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS BUILDING OF GENERAL OFFICERS COMMANDING, STEELES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092611
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- South East District Headquarters Building of General Officers Commanding
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH EAST DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS BUILDING OF GENERAL OFFICERS COMMANDING, STEELES 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:
- SOUTH EAST DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS BUILDING OF GENERAL OFFICERS COMMANDING, STEELES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Rushmoor (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86553 51722
Details
ALDERSHOT
SU 85 SE
STEELES ROAD
(North East side)
991-0/2/68
South-East
District Headquarters
17.4.75
II
Headquarters office. Dated 1895, foundation stone laid 1894 by the Duke of Connaught. Brick with Portland stone, rubbed brick and terracotta dressings, brick stacks to ridge and below the ridge, and slate hipped roof Artisan Mannerist style. Double-depth plan with rear wings enclosing a courtyard. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4:6:3:6:4-window range. Central and end sections set forward with thin outer pilaster strips, paired windows set in shallow raised panels with a string between the floors, and bracketed caves; central section has pilaster strips between windows to tall pediment with stone mouldings, ashlar porch with paired Tuscan columns to entablature and balustrade, double half-glazed doors with overlight and 10-pane sidelights, outer first-floor windows have blind balustrades and terracotta segmental pediments, central tripartite window has a pediment broken by a panel with Royal Coat of Arms inscribed DIEU ET MON DROIT, and an oculus in the pediment with enriched surround inscribed VR,. Windows with rubbed brick heads and hoods for blinds, keyed on ground floor, to homed 6/6-pane sashes. Rear has a large central stair light with 3 tall round-arched windows. INTERIOR: has a central hall with a mosaic floor inscribed VR, 1895, divided by a segmental arch on pilasters, to a rear cast-iron Imperial stair with cast-iron columns forming newels, perforated risers, and iron balusters with a central roundel; axial passage with elliptical arches and pilasters, and 6-panel doors. HISTORY: the Military Headquarters in Aldershot, and associated with many national military figures. A particularly enriched example of a typical late C19 officers quarters building, with notable iron stairs. (Childerhouse T: Military Aldershot, the first fifty years: London: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SU8596151712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 137895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Childerhouse, T, Military Aldershot the first fifty years, (1990)
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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