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The Staff College

A Grade II Listed Building in Camberley, Surrey

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Latitude: 51.3407 / 51°20'26"N

Longitude: -0.7485 / 0°44'54"W

OS Eastings: 487268

OS Northings: 160926

OS Grid: SU872609

Mapcode National: GBR D8M.X5R

Mapcode Global: VHDXH.ZK4K

Plus Code: 9C3X87R2+7H

Entry Name: The Staff College

Listing Date: 19 July 1984

Last Amended: 27 September 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1030033

English Heritage Legacy ID: 287093

Also known as: Staff college of the Royal Military College

ID on this website: 101030033

Location: Camberley, Surrey Heath, Surrey, GU15

County: Surrey

District: Surrey Heath

Electoral Ward/Division: Town

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camberley

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey

Church of England Parish: Camberley St Michael (York Town)

Church of England Diocese: Guildford

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CAMBERLEY & FRIMLEY FORMER U.D.
CAMBERLEY
LONDON ROAD
The Staff College

(Formerly listed as Staff College of The Royal Military College)

GV
II

College. 1862 by Pennethorne in Victorian Country house style. Stock brick on stone plinth with channelled rustication on ground floor and dressings, quoins and centrepiece; mansard slate roofs. Three storeys and attics under flat roof sash dormer windows with decorative plat band over ground floor, cill band to second floor and heavy modillion and bracket eave cornice; stacks to return fronts under semi-circular decorations to tops. Twenty-five bay front with sash windows in moulded architrave surrounds, ground and first floor windows under hoods on brackets.

Four storey corner pavilions; angle piers and an order on all four storeys: attached Tuscan to ground floor, Ionic on first floor, antae on second and third. Balustrade with panelled piers to top. Round turret with glazed drum and ogee dome to left hand corner pavilion. Four storey three bay frontispiece with pedimented aedicule containing military trophies surmounted by a flagpole above the main cornice. Tripartite window on second floor, single window to centre of first floor with triangular pediment over on brackets. Central double panelled doors flanked by half columns in Antis with cornice projecting either side on two full columns.

Library:

Interior:-/ Edwardian panelling with Ionic pilasters. Central Roman entrance Hall, two storeys with encircling gallery. Black and White stone floor : Doric order below, Ionic order above on columned screens. Fine Ionic columned staircase.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p,128.

Listing NGR: SU8726860926

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