Naafi (Building 9) , Hounslow Barracks
NAAFI (BUILDING 9), HOUNSLOW BARRACKS, BEAVERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375628
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Naafi (Building 9) , Hounslow Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- NAAFI (BUILDING 9), HOUNSLOW BARRACKS, BEAVERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375628
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Naafi (Building 9) , Hounslow Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- NAAFI (BUILDING 9), 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:
- NAAFI (BUILDING 9), 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 11840 75743
Details
TQ 1175 NE BEAVERS LANE, Hounslow
(North side)
787/41/10035
Naafi (Building 9), Hounslow
Barracks
GV II
Canteen, reading room and sergeant's mess; now Naafi. 1875, signed by Colonel CB Ewart, RE, Inspector General of Fortifications office; extended and altered early-mid C20. Yellow stock brick with brick right-hand lateral stacks and a slate U-shaped hipped roof Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 3:1:3:1-window range. Irregular front with pale brick bands to ground-floor cills and lintels and segmental-arched window heads, with a patterned band between floors, flat-headed first-floor windows and bracketed eaves cornice; left-hand section set forward, central entrance bay beneath an ashlar clock tower with segmental-arched cornice, paired first-floor windows and projecting porch \vith a lean-to roof Tall metal-paned windows. Right-hand single-storey block with 5-window right-hand return. Left-hand return includes 2 large round-arched ground-floor windows in matching recesses.
INTERIOR: has a central stair hall with a dogleg stair, plain cornices, and C20 iron roofjoists; full-depth left-hand ground-floor mess room.
HISTOR Y: used to provide canteen and recreation facilities. Added as part of the development of the barracks as one of the double Localisation depot under the Cardwell reforms, and indicative of the rising standard of living coniditions in anny barracks. Included as part of one of the most complete and significant barracks in the country .
(Watson ColonelSirH M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160; Ewart CB:Plans and elevations: 1875-: PRO, WORK43/51).
Listing NGR: TQ1184075743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469602
- 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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