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Latitude: 51.5366 / 51°32'11"N
Longitude: -0.1741 / 0°10'26"W
OS Eastings: 526731
OS Northings: 183543
OS Grid: TQ267835
Mapcode National: GBR 53.2C
Mapcode Global: VHGQR.XMSX
Plus Code: 9C3XGRPG+J8
Entry Name: Riding School, St Johns Wood Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375622
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469596
ID on this website: 101375622
Location: St John's Wood, Westminster, London, NW8
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Abbey Road
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Johns Wood Church
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TQ 2683 NE ORDNANCE HILL, NW8
(south-west side)
1900/3/10116 Riding School, St John's Wood
Barracks
II
Riding school at Royal Artillery barracks. 1823-24, signed by Major B Tylden, RE. Painted brick with slate hipped roof. Classical style. Rectangular plan with entrance porch at E end.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 6-window range. A regular hall with impost band and brick eaves corice, the pedimented porch has a round-arched recess containing a segmental-arched doorway and a lunette over the impost band, and a square timber clock tower with louvred front and weather vane on top. The end of the riding school has a segmental-arched doorway to the side of the porch; the sides have an arcade of arched recesses as the porch, containing large small-paned metal-framed lights divided into three by a round-arched mullion.
INTERIOR: has battered sides to the lower wall to prevent horses becoming trapped, and a wide timber queen post roof.
HISTORY: riding schools were a central part of cavalry barracks for training and practising manoeuvres. St John's Wood was one of the few barracks built during the post-Waterloo period, to improve security in the capital, and is linked in with Nash's Metropolitan Improvements. The riding school is the only major remaining part of the original barracks. Only two much smaller examples survive that are earlier, at Dorchester and Exeter, the St John's Wood school is comparable with the large riding school built at the same time as part of the Brighton Pavilion, a large and carefully composed example of this specialised type.
(Plans of site and plans and elevations of 'riding house': 1825-: PRO, W078/1338).
Listing NGR: TQ2673183543
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