Latitude: 51.4679 / 51°28'4"N
Longitude: -0.3872 / 0°23'13"W
OS Eastings: 512124
OS Northings: 175556
OS Grid: TQ121755
Mapcode National: GBR 4N.92H
Mapcode Global: VHFTL.7CNK
Plus Code: 9C3XFJ97+44
Entry Name: Medical Centre (Building 24), Hounslow Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375627
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469601
ID on this website: 101375627
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
(North side)
787/41/10030
Medical Centre (Building 24),
Hounslow Barracks (formerly
Known as Hounslow Cavalry
Barracks Hospital
GV II
Regimental hospital. c1862, designed by Captain Douglas Galton, RE. Cream-coloured terracotta blocks with red brick dressings and ashlar plat band, brick lateral stacks and slate hipped roof.
PLAN: In-line ,pavilion plan of wards flanking a central administrative block with detached kitchen and stores.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 1:7:7:7:1-window range. Symmetrical range has red brick quoins and dressings to the openings, and boxed eaves, projecting 2 storey adniinistrative block with plat band, recessed 3-window centre with an arcade of central doorways with radial fanlights and double doors, narrow windows to parapet ted corner blocks, 12/12-pane ground-floor sashes to inner sides, fronts of projecting blocks have 6/6-pane sashes and paired first-floor plate-glass sashes; central gable dormers to each side flanked by lateral stacks. Single-storey wards each side have flat-headed 6/6-pane sashes. Projecting end pavilions have triple round-arched windows to front and rear, and similar windows either side of end recessed doorways.
INTERIOR: has former ward rooms either end with a central dogleg stair , encased c 1930, and mid C20 partitions.
HISTORY: Galton was one of the main hospital reformers, an associate of Florence Nightingale and responsible for the highly influential Herbert Hospital (1865). He circulated model pavilion plan hospitals for barracks through the Royal Engineers. Hounslow was based on the 60-bed in-line hospital. It is possibly the earliest example of the pavilion principle in the country, and a little altered building within its original barracks layout.
(The Builder: London: 1862-: 6 DECEMBER, 872-4; PRO, WORK 43/48; Hospitals and Asylums of England, 1660-1948: Katherine Morrison: The Hospitals of the Armed Forces: Draft: 1994-).
Listing NGR: TQ1212475556
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