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Latitude: 51.883 / 51°52'58"N
Longitude: 0.894 / 0°53'38"E
OS Eastings: 599275
OS Northings: 224451
OS Grid: TL992244
Mapcode National: GBR SN4.YN2
Mapcode Global: VHKFZ.FXZW
Plus Code: 9F32VVMV+5J
Entry Name: Former Sergeants Mess, Le Cateau Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375581
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469545
ID on this website: 101375581
Location: Colchester, Essex, CO2
County: Essex
District: Colchester
Electoral Ward/Division: New Town and Christ Church
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Colchester
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: Colchester St Botolph with Holy Trinity (LEP)
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TM 9924 SE COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD
(North side)
Colchester Garrison
584/18/10014
Former Sergeants' Mess,
Le Cateau Barracks
GV II
Sergeant's mess. c1861. Red brick with yellow brick and limestone dressings, brick ridge and lateral stacks and slate cross-gable roof Single-depth T-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2:3-window range. Projecting left-hand gable, yellow brick plinth, cill and lintel bands, brick eaves cornice and coped gables, ashlar flat heads to 6/6-pane sashes, which are paired on the ground floor of the projecting gable, beneath a tripartite upper window with Caenarvon arch containing simple plate tracery. A single-storey porch in the re-entrant has a raking roof and plane flat-headed doorway. Roof has a square lantern with pyramidal roof and finial.
INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: Part of the Le Cateau barracks, which were the first permanent barracks at Colchester camp. The Gothic detail exhibits an unusually ornamental approach to barracks design. Le Cateau is the last surviving example of the new layout of cavalry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s for large scale training camps.
(PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: Colchester: CTR 130-158; Dietz P: Garrison Ten British Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3-22).
Listing NGR: TL9927524451
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