REGENTS PARK BARRACKS, BLOCK K (THE OFFICERS MESS)

REGENTS PARK BARRACKS, BLOCK K (THE OFFICERS MESS), ALBANY STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378622
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1990
List Entry Name:: REGENTS PARK BARRACKS, BLOCK K (THE OFFICERS MESS)
Statutory Address:: REGENTS PARK BARRACKS, BLOCK K (THE OFFICERS MESS), ALBANY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378622
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1990
List Entry Name:: REGENTS PARK BARRACKS, BLOCK K (THE OFFICERS MESS)
Statutory Address 1:: REGENTS PARK BARRACKS, BLOCK K (THE OFFICERS MESS), ALBANY STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: REGENTS PARK BARRACKS, BLOCK K (THE OFFICERS MESS), ALBANY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28813 83219

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2883SE ALBANY STREET 798-1/82/31 (East side) 22/06/90 Regent's Park Barracks, Block K (The Officers Mess)

GV II

Officers' quarters and mess in former cavalry barracks. c1820-1, designed at the Barrack Department, built by Messrs. Baker & Nicholson. 3 bays added to the north, one to the south and some existing windows altered 1866-7. Yellow stock brick with brick ridge stacks and slated hipped roof. Late Georgian style. PLAN: left-hand single-depth mess rooms, with to right double-depth plan officers' rooms with axial central passage. EXTERIOR: single storey and basement; 4-window left-hand mess section 2 storeys and basement; 15-window range to right. Mess section has tall windows with a central doorway with flush-panelled door and overlight. Quarters section has main entrance 2 bays from the left beneath a C20 canopy, to doorway with fanlight and panelled doors; gauged brick flat arches to sashes, south half has alternating blind windows. INTERIOR: contains original mess dining room, ante rooms and lower ante room, on a generous scale with original plasterwork, and an interesting cast-iron Adam-style fireplace; dogleg stairs with column newel, plain rectangular balusters and mahogany rail. HISTORICAL NOTE: this is the only surviving part of the original barracks, intended to provide accommodation for about 450 officers and men and 400 horses. A barracks was laid out by John Nash as part of the Regents Park scheme in 1811, though the site was later changed to the present one backing on to the 1816 canal cut. It is one of 4 new barracks associated with Nash's Metropolitan Improvements at this time, generally a period of retrenchment in barracks provision. The rest of the barracks has been rebuilt, though following the original plan. After that, at Deal, this is the oldest example of a separate officers' quarters in England which is still in its original context, and one of only 5 pre-Crimean War examples.

Listing NGR: TQ2881383219

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Legacy System number:: 476575
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.