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Latitude: 51.8828 / 51°52'58"N
Longitude: 0.8938 / 0°53'37"E
OS Eastings: 599258
OS Northings: 224429
OS Grid: TL992244
Mapcode National: GBR SN4.YKL
Mapcode Global: VHKFZ.FYV0
Plus Code: 9F32VVMV+4G
Entry Name: Former School Room, Le Cateau Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375579
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469543
ID on this website: 101375579
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 SW COLCHESTER LE CATEAU ROAD
(North West side)
Colchester Garrison
584/18/10019
Former School Room,
Le Cateau Barracks
GV II
School room, now office. c1863. Red brick with yellow brick and limestone dressings, and a slate roof. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 6-window range. Yellow brick plinth, cill and lintel bands, and brick eaves cornice, with coped end gables. Round-arched windows with small-paned metal frames, and a central flat-headed doorway. Windows to end gables with upper oculus. Blind rear elevation.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: one of the earliest school rooms at an English barracks, with that at Lower barracks, Winchester. They were first provided in the 1840s, to raise the standard of education of the troops, 3rd provide schooling for soldiers' children. Le Cateau cavalry barracks were the first permanent
.barracks built at Colchester camp. Le Cateau is the only surviving example of the new layout for c3valry barracks developed at Aldershot in the 1850s for large-scale training camps. The school is included as part of the complex, and as a rare early school room.
(PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 130-158; Dietz P: Garrison: Ten British Military Towns: London: 1986-: 3-22).
Listing NGR: TL9925824429
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