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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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.