Smith Dorrien House
SMITH DORRIEN HOUSE, QUEENS AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375566
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Smith Dorrien House
- Statutory Address:
- SMITH DORRIEN HOUSE, QUEENS AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375566
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Smith Dorrien House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMITH DORRIEN HOUSE, QUEENS AVENUE
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:
- SMITH DORRIEN HOUSE, QUEENS AVENUE
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 86276 51355
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/10/2012
SU 85 SE
991/2/10017
ALDERSHOT
QUEEN'S AVENUE
(South East side)
Smith-Dorrien House
(Formerly listed as Smith-Dorien House)
II
Barracks institute, now offices. Dated 1908, probably by H B Measures, architect and the Director of Barracks Construction. Brick with stone dressings, lateral stacks and slate hipped roof. Central hall with offices to sides and rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-bay range. Symmetrical front has square towers flanking central gable and wings with hipped roofs set back, flush cill and head bands, and round-arched mullion and transom windows. Towers have moulded elliptical-arched doorways with radial fanlights and double doors with raised panels, keyed oculi with glazing bars, and moulded string to recessed top section of tower with round-arched cross windows to each side, and octagonal cupola with copper-clad domes with finials; between is a large 5-light window beneath a parapet, divided at floor level by a stone panel, each section with 2 transoms, the gable above set back with an ashlar top section and a wide segmental-arched 5-light window. Flanking blocks have 3-light transom windows, with matching lights to the 2:5-bay returns with single-storey rear sections over which the roof sweeps, and two 3-light gabled dormers in the main roof Rear has single-storey range beneath the rear gable, as the front. INTERIOR: large 3-bay central rooms have cast-iron central columns, the ground floor has round-arched arcades to the sides and rear with architraves and moulded cornices, first-floor room with elliptical arches over railed galleries, front stairs from entrances with turned balusters and column newels; doorways with swan's neck pediments. HISTORY: Institutes provided rooms for reading, meetings, study and games. They were part of the late C19 effort by the army to provide wider entertainment opportunities for the soldiers. This is one of the most distinguished institutes, and one of the more architecturally interesting army buildings at Aldershot, representative of rising standards of training in the Army. (Childerhouse T: Military Aldershot, the first fifty years: London: 1990-).
Listing NGR: SU8628151360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469530
- 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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