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Latitude: 51.4696 / 51°28'10"N
Longitude: -0.3912 / 0°23'28"W
OS Eastings: 511840
OS Northings: 175743
OS Grid: TQ118757
Mapcode National: GBR 4N.21W
Mapcode Global: VHFTL.5BJ7
Plus Code: 9C3XFJ95+RG
Entry Name: Naafi (Building 9), Hounslow Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375628
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469602
ID on this website: 101375628
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)
787/41/10035
Naafi (Building 9), Hounslow
Barracks
GV II
Canteen, reading room and sergeant's mess; now Naafi. 1875, signed by Colonel CB Ewart, RE, Inspector General of Fortifications office; extended and altered early-mid C20. Yellow stock brick with brick right-hand lateral stacks and a slate U-shaped hipped roof Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 3:1:3:1-window range. Irregular front with pale brick bands to ground-floor cills and lintels and segmental-arched window heads, with a patterned band between floors, flat-headed first-floor windows and bracketed eaves cornice; left-hand section set forward, central entrance bay beneath an ashlar clock tower with segmental-arched cornice, paired first-floor windows and projecting porch \vith a lean-to roof Tall metal-paned windows. Right-hand single-storey block with 5-window right-hand return. Left-hand return includes 2 large round-arched ground-floor windows in matching recesses.
INTERIOR: has a central stair hall with a dogleg stair, plain cornices, and C20 iron roofjoists; full-depth left-hand ground-floor mess room.
HISTOR Y: used to provide canteen and recreation facilities. Added as part of the development of the barracks as one of the double Localisation depot under the Cardwell reforms, and indicative of the rising standard of living coniditions in anny barracks. Included as part of one of the most complete and significant barracks in the country .
(Watson ColonelSirH M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160; Ewart CB:Plans and elevations: 1875-: PRO, WORK43/51).
Listing NGR: TQ1184075743
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