CAVALRY HOUSE, DUKE OF YORKS HEADQUARTERS

CAVALRY HOUSE, DUKE OF YORKS HEADQUARTERS, KINGS ROAD SW3

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375617
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: CAVALRY HOUSE, DUKE OF YORKS HEADQUARTERS
Statutory Address:: CAVALRY HOUSE, DUKE OF YORKS HEADQUARTERS, KINGS ROAD SW3

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375617
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: CAVALRY HOUSE, DUKE OF YORKS HEADQUARTERS
Statutory Address 1:: CAVALRY HOUSE, DUKE OF YORKS HEADQUARTERS, KINGS ROAD SW3

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CAVALRY HOUSE, DUKE OF YORKS HEADQUARTERS, KINGS ROAD SW3

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28000 78379

Details

TQ 2778 SE KING'S ROAD SW3 (South East side) 249/57/10048 Cavalry House, Duke of York's Headquarters

GV II

Cavalry barracks, now offices. Early-mid C19, completely rebuilt internally c1994. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick and limestone dressing, brick ridge stacks, roof not visible. Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 19-window range. Symmetrical front with 2-window sections 1 window from the end set forward, ground-floor blind round-arched arcade with imposts and moulded archivolts, first- and second-floor cill bands, string and cornice to blocking course. Central entrance has a flat-headed raised surround set forward with cornice, keyed round-arched doorway with recessed late C20 door; rubbed brick round-arched ground-floor and flat-arched upper floor 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: completely rebuilt. Although the interior has been lost, this is an otherwise intact example of one of the few barracks built between the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars, and forms part of a good group with the Duke of York's Headquarters (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ2800078379

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Legacy System number:: 469582
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.