CAVALRY BARRACKS A, LE CATEAU BARRACKS

CAVALRY BARRACKS A, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375576
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: CAVALRY BARRACKS A, LE CATEAU BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: CAVALRY BARRACKS A, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375576
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: CAVALRY BARRACKS A, LE CATEAU BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: CAVALRY BARRACKS A, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU 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:: CAVALRY BARRACKS A, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Colchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 99315 24500

Details

TM 9924 NW COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD (North West side) 584/8/10010 Colchester Garrison

Cavalry Barracks A, Le Cateau Barracks

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Cavalry barracks. 1863. Red brick with yellow brick bands and stone lintels, slate roof and brick ridge stacks. Rectangular single-depth plan with stores and officers' stables at the corners EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 6:4:6-window range. Similar front and rear elevations have coped end gables and patterned brick eaves, with projecting 2-window single-storey blocks at each end and a central pediment gable. Square stable windows extend along North side, with central segmental-arcfied double doors, the end blocks have left hand doors and a right-hand window, and a louvred oculus; 4/4-pane sashes to barrack rooms above. South side has a band of patterned brick below the stable windows, and three doorways separated by windows to the central gable; the upper floor are set back to form a balcony between the gable and end blocks, with diagonal iron railings. INTERIOR: the stables, divided into two sections, have a central aisle between cast-iron posts dividing the stalls, supporting a brick jack-arch floor with ties between the joists; office and store roon1S to each end. A central imperial stair leads up to the 22-man barrack rooms each side of the NCO's room. HISTORY: Le Cateau is the last surviving example of the new layout of cavalry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s. As a fireproof building with enhanced ventilation for the men, an advanced design of cavalry barracks for the day, though using the traditional plan of men's rooms over stables. Part of a group with the other barrack buildings, Le Cateau was the first permanent barracks built at Colchester. (Dietz P: Garrison: Ten Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 130-158).

Listing NGR: TL9931524500

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 469540
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dietz, P, Garrison Ten Military Towns, (1986), 3

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.