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Latitude: 51.8838 / 51°53'1"N
Longitude: 0.8951 / 0°53'42"E
OS Eastings: 599347
OS Northings: 224540
OS Grid: TL993245
Mapcode National: GBR SN4.YZ4
Mapcode Global: VHKFZ.GXK8
Plus Code: 9F32VVMW+G2
Entry Name: Former Officers Quarters, Le Cateau Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375580
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469544
ID on this website: 101375580
Location: Colchester, Essex, CO2
County: Essex
District: Colchester
Electoral Ward/Division: New Town and Christ Church
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Colchester
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: Colchester St Botolph with Holy Trinity (LEP)
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TM 9924 NW COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD
(North West side)
Colchester Garrison
584/8/10013
Former Officers' Quarters,
Le Cateau Barracks
GV II
Officers' quarters, now sergeant's mess. c1863. Brick with yellow brick and stone dressings, brick ridge stacks and a slate roof. Single-depth axial plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 11 window range. Symmetrical front has yellow brick band over the ground-floor windows, yellow brick moulded brick eaves cornice, and taller central gable set forward. Gabled porches on moulded kneelers to round-arched doorways with fanlight and o-panel doors, either side of the central gable and 4 bays form the ends; windows with moulded lintels to 6/6-pane sashes, round-arched first-floor windows to central gable, beneath an oculus. Similar l-ear with 2-storey porches and C20 single-storey service blocks.
INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: Le Cateau is the only surviving example of the new layout of cavalry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s, for large-scale training camps. Le Cateau was the first permanent barracks at Colchester camp. Originally at the head of two parallel rows each of three cavalry barracks each side; two survive, blocks A and B (qv). Included as the centrepiece of the original layout, and as part of a group with the rest of the complex.
(Dietz P: Garrison: Ten Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3; PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 130-158).
Listing NGR: TL9934724540
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