Riding School, St Johns Wood Barracks
RIDING SCHOOL, ST JOHNS WOOD BARRACKS, ORDNANCE HILL NW8
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375622
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Riding School, St Johns Wood Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- RIDING SCHOOL, ST JOHNS WOOD BARRACKS, ORDNANCE HILL NW8
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375622
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Riding School, St Johns Wood Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIDING SCHOOL, ST JOHNS WOOD BARRACKS, ORDNANCE HILL NW8
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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.
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:
- RIDING SCHOOL, ST JOHNS WOOD BARRACKS, ORDNANCE HILL NW8
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26731 83543
Details
TQ 2683 NE ORDNANCE HILL, NW8
(south-west side)
1900/3/10116 Riding School, St John's Wood
Barracks
II
Riding school at Royal Artillery barracks. 1823-24, signed by Major B Tylden, RE. Painted brick with slate hipped roof. Classical style. Rectangular plan with entrance porch at E end.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 6-window range. A regular hall with impost band and brick eaves corice, the pedimented porch has a round-arched recess containing a segmental-arched doorway and a lunette over the impost band, and a square timber clock tower with louvred front and weather vane on top. The end of the riding school has a segmental-arched doorway to the side of the porch; the sides have an arcade of arched recesses as the porch, containing large small-paned metal-framed lights divided into three by a round-arched mullion.
INTERIOR: has battered sides to the lower wall to prevent horses becoming trapped, and a wide timber queen post roof.
HISTORY: riding schools were a central part of cavalry barracks for training and practising manoeuvres. St John's Wood was one of the few barracks built during the post-Waterloo period, to improve security in the capital, and is linked in with Nash's Metropolitan Improvements. The riding school is the only major remaining part of the original barracks. Only two much smaller examples survive that are earlier, at Dorchester and Exeter, the St John's Wood school is comparable with the large riding school built at the same time as part of the Brighton Pavilion, a large and carefully composed example of this specialised type.
(Plans of site and plans and elevations of 'riding house': 1825-: PRO, W078/1338).
Listing NGR: TQ2673183543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469596
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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