Former Officers Quarters the Garden Village
FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS THE GARDEN VILLAGE, GALLOWGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375567
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Officers Quarters the Garden Village
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS THE GARDEN VILLAGE, GALLOWGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375567
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Officers Quarters the Garden Village
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS THE GARDEN VILLAGE, GALLOWGATE
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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:
- FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS THE GARDEN VILLAGE, GALLOWGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Richmond
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 17464 01826
Details
RICHMOND
NZ 10 SE
GALLOWGATE
(East side)
681-0/6/10000
Former Officer's quarters, the
Garden Village
II
Formerly known as: Alma barracks GALLOWGATE.
Officers' quarters and mess, now retirement home. 1874-7, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon RE; converted 1980-90. Squared stone with ashlar dressings, shouldered stone ridge and gable stacks and a slate hipped and cross-gabled roof. Double-depth axial L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 10-window range. An asymmetrical range has 3 unevenly-spaced projecting coped gables, with a deep single-storey canted mess room bay to the left of the left-hand gable, and an open ashlar porch with hipped roof and lead finial to the right on columns with stiff leaf capitals to round-arched openings; the doorway has half-glazed double doors. Bay and gables have paired and 3-light windows with narrow segmental-arched transom lights and 4/4-pane sashes, mostly replaced by plate-glass sashes; the outer gables have 3-light first-floor windows under a 2-centre arched tympanum, and the windows between the gables and to the sides and rear have flat heads. INTERIOR: contains an axial passage, with an entrance hall dogleg stair, and original joinery and plaster decoration. HISTORY: built for officers' accommodation, mess and administration of the Richmond Localisation Depot, under the Cardwell Reforms. These redistributed infantry barracks around the country to encourage local connections and assist recruitment. A standard design, very similar to the brick example at Brock barracks, Reading (qv). The barracks was unusual in being built of stone, and not having the characteristic keep. The officers' quarters is included as the most representative and unaltered element from the former barracks. (SAVE Britain's Heritage.. Deserted Bastions: London: 1993-: 238; Watson Colonel Sir H M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 19.54-: 157-160).
Listing NGR: NZ1746401826
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watson, H M, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, (1954), 157-160
SAVE Britains Heritage, , Deserted Bastions, (1993), 238
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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