Former Guardroom to Royal Pavilion

FORMER GUARDROOM TO ROYAL PAVILION, FARNBOROUGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1339671
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1979
List Entry Name:
Former Guardroom to Royal Pavilion
Statutory Address:
FORMER GUARDROOM TO ROYAL PAVILION, FARNBOROUGH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1339671
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:
Former Guardroom to Royal Pavilion
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER GUARDROOM TO ROYAL PAVILION, FARNBOROUGH ROAD

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

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER GUARDROOM TO ROYAL PAVILION, 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 85259 50812

Details

SU 85 SE
991-0/2/20
20.8.79


ALDERSHOT
FARNBOROUGH ROAD
(North West side)
Former Guardroom to
Royal Pavilion


II


Also known as: The Lodge FARNBOROUGH.
Guardroom, disused. c1855. Timber frame clad in weatherboard, brick ridge stack and hipped roof now felted. Rectangular 3-room plan. EXTERIOR: Single storey; 3-bay range. Right of centre doorway with 4-panel door and windows each side with margin pane sashes; central window in right-hand return, central doorway and 4-panel door to left-hand return. Roof extends down to form a verandah on timber posts all round. INTERIOR: consists of 3 ceiled rooms, the left-hand two heated by a stove. HISTORY: the guardroom is associated with the Royal Pavilion, formerly to the west and now demolished, which was used for visits by Queen Victoria and Albert. The last surviving example of the sort of temporary building with which Aldershot Camp was first established and, with its Royal connection, of considerable historic Importance. (SAVE Britain's Heritage: Deserted Bastions, Historic Naval and Military Architecture: London: 1993-: 170; Childerhouse T: Military Aldershot, the fist fifty years: London:1990-).


Listing NGR: SU8494650853

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
137844
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
SAVE Britains Heritage, , Deserted Bastions, (1993), 170
Childerhouse, T, Military Aldershot the first fifty years, (1990)

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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.

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