Gateway and Two Flanking Guardrooms to Former Willems Barracks
GATEWAY AND TWO FLANKING GUARDROOMS TO FORMER WILLEMS BARRACKS, FARNBOROUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092631
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Two Flanking Guardrooms to Former Willems Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND TWO FLANKING GUARDROOMS TO FORMER WILLEMS BARRACKS, FARNBOROUGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092631
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Two Flanking Guardrooms to Former Willems Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY AND TWO FLANKING GUARDROOMS TO FORMER WILLEMS BARRACKS, FARNBOROUGH ROAD
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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:
- GATEWAY AND TWO FLANKING GUARDROOMS TO FORMER WILLEMS BARRACKS, FARNBOROUGH 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 85407 50918
Details
ALDERSHOT
SU 85 SE
FARNBOROUGH ROAD
(East side)
991-0/2/22
Gateway and 2 flanking
guardrooms to former
Willems Barracks
9.6.82
GV II
Guard rooms and gateway to cavalry barracks; disused. Dated 1856. Yellow stock brick with Portland stone and rubbed brick dressings, and slate roof Sinffic-depth plan guardrooms on opposite sides of paved area, connected by entrance gate. EXTERIOR: single-storey 5-bay guardrooms with 2-window street gables. 2 pairs of square piers with plinths and stone caps with shallow brackets, with mid C20 metal gates, and outer flat-headed wickets within segmental-arches containing stone panels, that to the left with VP, in raised letters surrounded by oak leaves over WEST CAVALRY BARRACKS, and to the right a similar panel inscribed ERECTED 1856. Short walls connect piers with the guardrooms, which have outer pilasters as the piers to coped gables, over rusticated segmental arched sunken panels containing 2 small seginental-arched 4/4-pane sashes. Opposite gables have brick dentil cornice, 3 sunken panels and a lunette. Inner sides of guardroorm have three 6/6-pane sashes, and panelled doors either side of the inner window, with a cast-iron verandah of 6 elliptical arches on thin octagonal posts xvith open spandrels. Rear of paved area closed by late C20 walls and railings. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: formed the entrance to the west or Willems Cavalry Barracks (demolished), a pair with the entrance to the Beaumont Barracks (qv). This was a wholly new concept in barracks planning, part of one of the original three permanent cavalry barracks built as the Wellington Lines at Aldershot. (Childerhouse T: Military Aldershot, the first fifty years: London: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SU8494650853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 137846
- 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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