FORMER SERGEANTS MESS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS

FORMER SERGEANTS MESS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375581
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER SERGEANTS MESS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: FORMER SERGEANTS MESS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS, LE CATEAU ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375581
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: FORMER SERGEANTS MESS, LE CATEAU BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER SERGEANTS MESS, 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 SERGEANTS MESS, 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 99275 24451

Details

TM 9924 SE COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD (North side) Colchester Garrison 584/18/10014 Former Sergeants' Mess, Le Cateau Barracks

GV II

Sergeant's mess. c1861. Red brick with yellow brick and limestone dressings, brick ridge and lateral stacks and slate cross-gable roof Single-depth T-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2:3-window range. Projecting left-hand gable, yellow brick plinth, cill and lintel bands, brick eaves cornice and coped gables, ashlar flat heads to 6/6-pane sashes, which are paired on the ground floor of the projecting gable, beneath a tripartite upper window with Caenarvon arch containing simple plate tracery. A single-storey porch in the re-entrant has a raking roof and plane flat-headed doorway. Roof has a square lantern with pyramidal roof and finial. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: Part of the Le Cateau barracks, which were the first permanent barracks at Colchester camp. The Gothic detail exhibits an unusually ornamental approach to barracks design. Le Cateau is the last surviving example of the new layout of cavalry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s for large scale training camps. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: Colchester: CTR 130-158; Dietz P: Garrison Ten British Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3-22).

Listing NGR: TL9927524451

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Legacy System number:: 469545
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Dietz, P, Garrison Ten Military Towns, (1986), 3-22

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