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Latitude: 51.458 / 51°27'28"N
Longitude: -1.0031 / 1°0'11"W
OS Eastings: 469357
OS Northings: 173695
OS Grid: SU693736
Mapcode National: GBR QCD.TS
Mapcode Global: VHDWS.KMK5
Plus Code: 9C3WFX5W+5Q
Entry Name: Former Married Quarters, Brock Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375594
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469558
ID on this website: 101375594
Location: Reading, Berkshire, RG30
County: Reading
Electoral Ward/Division: Norcot
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Reading
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Tilehurst St George
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SU 67 SE READING OXFORD ROAD
(south side)
934/16/10014
Former married quarters,
Brock barracks
GV II
Married quarters. 1877, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon RE, supervising engineer Major Flint RE. Red brick with yellow brick sill and lintel bands, moulded brick ground-floor heads and stone first-floor heads; ridge stacks with square cluster shafts and tiled roof. PLAN: I-shaped plan of double-depth apartments. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 1:7:2:7: 1-window range. A symmetrical range with yellow sill and lintel bands and a moulded brick band below window heads, coped cross gables either end on moulded kneelers with triple windows, the upper ones with a 2-centre arched tympanum with patterned brick infill; paired central gables front and rear have paired lights. Doorways either side of the front gables, a porch with hipped roof in the re-entrant at the left-hand end. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: an example of a standard design for the Localisation depots, applied by the local engineer officer. The Cardwell reforms redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections, and assist recruitment. Included as part of, with Bodmin, one of the two most complete surviving depots. (Watson Colonel Sir HM: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).
Listing NGR: SU6935773695
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