Former Officers' Quarters, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
Former Officers' Quarters, Royal Artillery Barracks, Le Cateau Road, Colchester
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375580
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Officers' Quarters, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
- Statutory Address:
- Former Officers' Quarters, Royal Artillery Barracks, Le Cateau Road, Colchester
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375580
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Officers' Quarters, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Officers' Quarters, 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 Officers' Quarters, 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 99347 24540
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 NW
584/8/10013
COLCHESTER
LE CATEAU ROAD
Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
Former Officers' Quarters
(Formerly listed as Former Officers' Quarters, Le Cateau Barracks, Colchester Garrison, LE CATEAU ROAD)
GV
II
Former officers' quarters, latterly sergeant's mess, 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: brick with yellow brick and stone dressings, brick ridge stacks and a slate roof.
PLAN: single-depth axial plan.
EXTERIOR: two-storey, 11:4:11-window range. Symmetrical front has yellow brick band over the ground floor windows, yellow brick moulded brick eaves cornice, and taller central gable set forward. Gabled porches on moulded kneelers to round-arched doorways with fanlight and two-panel, two-light doors, either side of the central gable and four bays form the ends; windows with moulded lintels to 6/6-pane sashes, round-arched first floor windows to central gable, beneath an oculus. Similar rear with two storey porches and C20 single-storey service blocks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: Le Cateau is the last surviving example of the new layout of cavalry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s. Part of a group with the other barrack buildings, Le Cateau was the second permanent barracks built at Colchester following the construction of the adjoining Calvary Barracks in 1862-64. Originally at the head of two parallel rows each of three cavalry barracks each side; two survive, Blocks A and B (listed Grade II). Included as the centre piece of the original layout, and as part of a group with the rest of the complex.
SOURCES: Dietz P: Garrison: Ten Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 130-158.
Listing NGR: TL9934724540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469544
- 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.
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