FORMER RIDING SCHOOL, LE CATEAU BARRACKS

FORMER RIDING SCHOOL, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375578
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL, LE CATEAU BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375578
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL, LE CATEAU BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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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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:: FORMER RIDING SCHOOL, 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 99230 24389

Details

TM 9924 SW COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD (North West side) Colchester Garrison 584/18/10012 Former Riding School, Le Cateau Barracks

GV II

Riding school. 1860. Brick with yellow brick dressings, and a slate roof. Rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: single storey; 14-bay range. The sides articulated by full-height buttresses, each bay with an upper segmental-arched 6-light window with transom, and alternate red and yellow brick voussoirs, North East end has an oculus, and wide double doors, with a lower 3-window range office block with hipped roof attached, plate-glass sashes, and a door in the right-hand end. South West end has a tall round-arched upper doorway. INTERIOR: has metal trusses with wrought-iron ties and paired struts, with battered panels to lower walls to prevent horses becoming trapped; a window looks down from the front office. HISTORY: riding schools were an important part of cavalry barracks throughout the C19 for exercising and practicing manoeuvres. This example is included as part of a near complete complex, the most important remaining one of its type on an English barracks. Le Cateau was the first permanent barracks at Colchester, and is the last surviving example of the new layout of cavalry b;}l-racks first developed at Aldershot in the 1850s, for large-scale training. (Dietz P: Garrison: Ten Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3; 1863-: CTR 130-158; Papers of the Royal Engineers: Ewart CB Colonel: Military Riding Schools: Chatham: 1862-: 22 June).

Listing NGR: TL9923024389

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Legacy System number:: 469542
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dietz, P, Garrison Ten Military Towns, (1986), 3
Ewart, C B, 'Papers of the Royal Engineers' in Military Riding Schools, (1862)

Legal

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