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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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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