Description

TR 34 SW GUSTON DUKE OF YORKS
ROYAL MILITARY
SCHOOL

5/13 Block no.36

17.6.83 (Dining Hall and
Tower)

GV II

Dining hall. 1909 by Sir Henry Tanner. Pebbledashed with red brick dressings
and plain tiled roof. Single storey nine bay hall, with tower and low
kitchen wings to north.Plinth, buttresses and pilaster strip quoins and
wooden modillion eaves cornice to roof with 2 lead cupola air vents. Three
large open pedimented projections on main elevation break through eaves level,
with keyed and gauged semi-circular mullioned and transomed windows, the
central with an apron below,those to left and right with double half-glazed
doors with corner hoods. Six mullioned windows high up to eaves. Return
elevations with large semi-circular headed windows, the eaves cornice raised
up over them, with half glazed doors below. Tall battered tower, each face
at the top with a clockface and curving iron balcony, with modillion eaves
cornice to lead cupola and flagstaff. Single storey kitchen and service wings
to north and east. Interior hall with 9 bay barrel vault with prominent
transverse ribs, modillion eaves cornice. Panelled lower walls, seats and
benches all original, as are 4 large iron corona lucis.

Listing NGR: TR3270843601

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26405555

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)