Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks
Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks, Beavers Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375624
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks, Beavers Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375624
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks, Beavers Lane
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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.
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 Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks, Beavers Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hounslow (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1213475731
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 March 2024 to correct the address and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 1175 NE
787/41/10034
BEAVERS LANE, Hounslow (North side)
Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks.
(Formerly Listed as FORMER HOSPITAL BUILDING (BUILDING 41), HOUNDSLOW BARRACKS)
GV
II
Barracks hospital, later sergeant's mess, now housing. c1793, by J Johnson, architect for the Barrack Department; altered 1920-1950. Yellow stock brick with hipped slate roof. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys; five window range. Symmetrical front has a mid-C20 doorway and door, with inserted windows to the left; remaining windows have segmental-arched heads to eight/eight pane horned sashes. On the left-hand side is a single-storey lean-to.
INTERIOR: rebuilt c1930.
HISTORY: the original barracks hospital, though much altered internally. Hounslow is the only surviving barracks of the first national barrack building campaign in England, authorised by Pitt for internal policing of major cities. The hospital is part of the original plan of the barracks, and one of only three barracks hospitals of this period, with those at Higher barracks, Exeter, and Poundbury barracks, Dorchester. Included for historic interest.
James Col J: Plans of the Barracks of England: London District: London: 1861.
Listing NGR: TQ1213475731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469598
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
James, J, Plans of the Barracks of England, (1861)
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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