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Latitude: 51.4575 / 51°27'26"N
Longitude: -1.0034 / 1°0'12"W
OS Eastings: 469335
OS Northings: 173639
OS Grid: SU693736
Mapcode National: GBR QCD.QZ
Mapcode Global: VHDWS.KMCK
Plus Code: 9C3WFX4W+XJ
Entry Name: Anson Barrack, Brock Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375592
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469556
ID on this website: 101375592
Location: Reading, Berkshire, RG30
County: Reading
Electoral Ward/Division: Norcot
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Reading
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Tilehurst St George
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SU 67 SE READING OXFORD ROAD
(south side)
934/16/10012
Anson barrack, Brock barracks
GV II
Soldiers' barrack. 1877, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon RE, supervising engineer Major Flint RE. Red brick with yellow brick sill and lintel bands, moulded brick ground-floor heads and stone first-floor heads; truncated end gable, rear lateral and ridge stacks, and tiled roof. PLAN : single-depth rooms each side of central dogleg stair, NCO rooms and ablutions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 8:3:8-window range. A symmetrical range with yellow sill and lintel bands and a moulded brick band below window heads, coped end gables on moulded kneelers, similar paired central gables with paired windows, the upper ones with a 2-centre arched tympanum with patterned brick infill, flanking an arched entrance beneath a brick balustrade. ANSON inscribed over the door. Rear has matching windows with a pair of ablution bays to the centre. INTERIOR: has former dormitories either side of a central dogleg stair. HISTORY: an example of a standard design for the Localisation depots, applied by the local engineer officer. The Cardwell reforms redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections, and assist recruitment. Included as part of, with Bodmin, one of the two most complete surviving depots.
(Watson Colonel Sir HM: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160).
Listing NGR: SU6933573639
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