Hardinge Block (Building 8) , Hounslow Barracks
HARDINGE BLOCK (BUILDING 8), HOUNSLOW BARRACKS, BEAVERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375626
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hardinge Block (Building 8) , Hounslow Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- HARDINGE BLOCK (BUILDING 8), HOUNSLOW BARRACKS, BEAVERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375626
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hardinge Block (Building 8) , Hounslow Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARDINGE BLOCK (BUILDING 8), 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:
- HARDINGE BLOCK (BUILDING 8), 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:
- TQ 11814 75683
Details
TQ 1175 NE BEAVERS LANE, Hounslow
(North side)
787/41/10029
Hardinge Block (Building 8),
Hounslow Barracks
GV II
Barracks. 1872-1880, designed at the Inspector General of Fortifications' Office by Major HC Seddon, RE; extended. Yellow stock brick with paler bands and a slate roof.
PLAN: single-depth barrack rooms. EXTERIOR: 3 storey; 38-window range. Long range has paler sill and lintel bands and a dentil eaves cornice, 2 projecting 3-window gabled stair sections with a 2-storey round-arched recess with balustrade to the first and second floor over a doorway, either side of the middle 8-window section. S 5-window extension with gabled end block, Segmental-arched 9/9-pane sashes. Rear has bowed ablution towers with half conical roofs either side of a narrow gable to the rear of the stair sections.
INTERIOR: contains barrack rooms separated by axial stair flights, with NCO rooms to the front and ablution rooms in the rear bays.
HISTORY: added to the late C18 barracks when Hounslow was made into a double-battalion Localisation depot during the Cardwell reforms and one of the very large standard War Office designs employed at the time, as for instance at the Guard depot. Caterham. Included as part of one of the most significant and complete barracks in the country, and as an example of one of the largest types built in England.
(Watson Colonel Sir H M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).
Listing NGR: TQ1181475683
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watson, H M, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, (1954), 157-160
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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