FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS

FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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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, LE CATEAU BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375580
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER OFFICERS QUARTERS, 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 OFFICERS QUARTERS, 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 99347 24540

Details

TM 9924 NW COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD (North West side) Colchester Garrison 584/8/10013 Former Officers' Quarters, Le Cateau Barracks

GV II

Officers' quarters, now sergeant's mess. c1863. Brick with yellow brick and stone dressings, brick ridge stacks and a slate roof. Single-depth axial plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 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 o-panel doors, either side of the central gable and 4 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 l-ear with 2-storey porches and C20 single-storey service blocks. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: Le Cateau is the only surviving example of the new layout of cavalry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s, for large-scale training camps. Le Cateau was the first permanent barracks at Colchester camp. Originally at the head of two parallel rows each of three cavalry barracks each side; two survive, blocks A and B (qv). Included as the centrepiece of the original layout, and as part of a group with the rest of the complex. (Dietz P: Garrison: Ten Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 130-158).

Listing NGR: TL9934724540

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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.