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Latitude: 51.4777 / 51°28'39"N
Longitude: -0.3142 / 0°18'51"W
OS Eastings: 517168
OS Northings: 176761
OS Grid: TQ171767
Mapcode National: GBR 74.PGH
Mapcode Global: VHGR2.H4R1
Plus Code: 9C3XFMHP+38
Entry Name: Former Riding School of Syon Park
Listing Date: 23 November 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1260656
English Heritage Legacy ID: 440118
ID on this website: 101260656
Location: Brentford End, Hounslow, London, TW8
County: London
District: Hounslow
Electoral Ward/Division: Syon
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hounslow
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: All Saints Isleworth
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The following building shall be added:
SYON PARK PARK ROAD
TQ 1776
787-/33/10007 Former riding school of
Syon Park
II
Riding School, now garden centre. c1819-1826. Built for Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of
Northumberland (1785-1847), who succeeded in 1817. Brick. Roof of slate. The west elevation
of nine-window range, above a bare ground-floor plinth. Each bay articulated by broad
pilasters in contrasting brick and with a Diocletian window; blocked round-arched window in
north gable end. Tudor effect to parapet coping. East elevation largely obscured by a C20 shed;
faced in yellow brick and having no pilasters; battlemented section to the centre. The most
noteworthy feature is found on the side, a 28-bay iron roof of composite truss construction.
Although it is difficult to arrive at a precise date for this structure, its tentative design suggests
one early in the history of iron construction. It can be attributed with a degree of certainty
either to Charles Fowler, an advocate of all-iron roofs who was active at Syon later on, or to
Thomas Cundy I, who recased Syon House in Bath stone in the early 1820s. The school
reflects the late C18/early C19 revival of tightly controlled dressage and forms a group with the
near contemporary stable block (q.v.). Alterations at the time of conversion to a garden centre,
c1967, have obscured the north end where it joins the stable block; the floor is believed to date
to the early C20, when the riding school was used as a war hospital.
Listing NGR: TQ1716876761
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