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Hardinge Block (Building 8), Hounslow Barracks

A Grade II Listed Building in Hounslow West, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4691 / 51°28'8"N

Longitude: -0.3916 / 0°23'29"W

OS Eastings: 511814

OS Northings: 175683

OS Grid: TQ118756

Mapcode National: GBR 4N.1YH

Mapcode Global: VHFTL.5BBN

Plus Code: 9C3XFJ95+J9

Entry Name: Hardinge Block (Building 8), Hounslow Barracks

Listing Date: 8 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375626

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469600

ID on this website: 101375626

Location: Hounslow West, Hounslow, London, TW4

County: London

District: Hounslow

Electoral Ward/Division: Hounslow West

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Hounslow

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Paul and The Good Shepherd, Hounslow

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ 1175 NE BEAVERS LANE, Hounslow
(North side)
787/41/10029
Hardinge Block (Building 8),
Hounslow Barracks

GV II

Barracks. 1872-1880, designed at the Inspector General of Fortifications' Office by Major HC Seddon, RE; extended. Yellow stock brick with paler bands and a slate roof.
PLAN: single-depth barrack rooms. EXTERIOR: 3 storey; 38-window range. Long range has paler sill and lintel bands and a dentil eaves cornice, 2 projecting 3-window gabled stair sections with a 2-storey round-arched recess with balustrade to the first and second floor over a doorway, either side of the middle 8-window section. S 5-window extension with gabled end block, Segmental-arched 9/9-pane sashes. Rear has bowed ablution towers with half conical roofs either side of a narrow gable to the rear of the stair sections.
INTERIOR: contains barrack rooms separated by axial stair flights, with NCO rooms to the front and ablution rooms in the rear bays.
HISTORY: added to the late C18 barracks when Hounslow was made into a double-battalion Localisation depot during the Cardwell reforms and one of the very large standard War Office designs employed at the time, as for instance at the Guard depot. Caterham. Included as part of one of the most significant and complete barracks in the country, and as an example of one of the largest types built in England.
(Watson Colonel Sir H M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).


Listing NGR: TQ1181475683

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