Medical Centre (Building 24) , Hounslow Barracks
MEDICAL CENTRE (BUILDING 24), HOUNSLOW BARRACKS, BEAVERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375627
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Medical Centre (Building 24) , Hounslow Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- MEDICAL CENTRE (BUILDING 24), HOUNSLOW BARRACKS, BEAVERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375627
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Medical Centre (Building 24) , Hounslow Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEDICAL CENTRE (BUILDING 24), HOUNSLOW BARRACKS, BEAVERS LANE
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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:
- MEDICAL CENTRE (BUILDING 24), 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 12124 75556
Details
TQ 1175 NE BEAVERS LANE
(North side)
787/41/10030
Medical Centre (Building 24),
Hounslow Barracks (formerly
Known as Hounslow Cavalry
Barracks Hospital
GV II
Regimental hospital. c1862, designed by Captain Douglas Galton, RE. Cream-coloured terracotta blocks with red brick dressings and ashlar plat band, brick lateral stacks and slate hipped roof.
PLAN: In-line ,pavilion plan of wards flanking a central administrative block with detached kitchen and stores.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 1:7:7:7:1-window range. Symmetrical range has red brick quoins and dressings to the openings, and boxed eaves, projecting 2 storey adniinistrative block with plat band, recessed 3-window centre with an arcade of central doorways with radial fanlights and double doors, narrow windows to parapet ted corner blocks, 12/12-pane ground-floor sashes to inner sides, fronts of projecting blocks have 6/6-pane sashes and paired first-floor plate-glass sashes; central gable dormers to each side flanked by lateral stacks. Single-storey wards each side have flat-headed 6/6-pane sashes. Projecting end pavilions have triple round-arched windows to front and rear, and similar windows either side of end recessed doorways.
INTERIOR: has former ward rooms either end with a central dogleg stair , encased c 1930, and mid C20 partitions.
HISTORY: Galton was one of the main hospital reformers, an associate of Florence Nightingale and responsible for the highly influential Herbert Hospital (1865). He circulated model pavilion plan hospitals for barracks through the Royal Engineers. Hounslow was based on the 60-bed in-line hospital. It is possibly the earliest example of the pavilion principle in the country, and a little altered building within its original barracks layout.
(The Builder: London: 1862-: 6 DECEMBER, 872-4; PRO, WORK 43/48; Hospitals and Asylums of England, 1660-1948: Katherine Morrison: The Hospitals of the Armed Forces: Draft: 1994-).
Listing NGR: TQ1212475556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in 6 December, (1862), 872-4
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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