Former School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
Former School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks, Le Cateau Road, Colchester
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375579
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
- Statutory Address:
- Former School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks, Le Cateau Road, Colchester
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375579
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks, Le Cateau Road, Colchester
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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 School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks, Le Cateau Road, Colchester
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 99258 24429
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30 July 2025 to amend the name, address, description and to reformat the text to current standards
TM 9924 SW
584/18/10019
COLCHESTER
LE CATEAU ROAD
Former School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
(Formerly listed as Former School Room, Le Cateau, Colchester Garrison, LE CATEAU ROAD)
GV
II
School room, latterly office, built in 1874-75 to a design by Lieutenant General Charles Brisbane Ewart RE, Deputy Director of Works for Barracks at the War Office
MATERIALS: red brick with yellow brick and limestone dressings, and a slate roof.
PLAN: single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey, six-window range. Yellow brick plinth, cill and lintel bands, and brick eaves cornice, with coped end gables. Round-arched windows with small-paned metal frames, and a central flat-headed doorway. Windows to end gables with upper oculus. Blind rear elevation.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: one of the earliest school rooms at an English barracks, with that at Lower Barracks, Winchester. They were first provided in the 1840s, to raise the standard of education of the troops, and to provide schooling for soldiers' children. Le Cateau Royal Artillery Barracks were the second permanent barracks built at Colchester after the adjoining Calvary Barracks which were built in 1862-64. The school is included as part of the complex, and as a rare early school room.
SOURCES: PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 130-158; Dietz P: Garrison: Ten British Military Towns: London: 1986, pp 3-22.
Listing NGR: TL9925824429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469543
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dietz, P, Garrison Ten Military Towns, (1986), 3-22
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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