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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, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as 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
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TM 9924 SW
584/18/10019
COLCHESTER
LE CATEAU ROAD
Former School Room, Royal Artillery Barracks (also known as Le Cateau Barracks)
(Formerly listed as Former School Room, Le Cateau, Colchester Garrison, LE CATEAU ROAD)
GV
II
School room, latterly office, built in 1874-75 to a design by Lieutenant General Charles Brisbane Ewart RE, Deputy Director of Works for Barracks at the War Office
MATERIALS: red brick with yellow brick and limestone dressings, and a slate roof.
PLAN: single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey, six-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, and to provide schooling for soldiers' children. Le Cateau Royal Artillery Barracks were the second permanent barracks built at Colchester after the adjoining Calvary Barracks which were built in 1862-64. The school is included as part of the complex, and as a rare early school room.
SOURCES: PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 130-158; Dietz P: Garrison: Ten British Military Towns: London: 1986, pp 3-22.
Listing NGR: TL9925824429
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