Latitude: 51.4694 / 51°28'10"N
Longitude: -0.387 / 0°23'13"W
OS Eastings: 512134
OS Northings: 175731
OS Grid: TQ121757
Mapcode National: GBR 4N.344
Mapcode Global: VHFTL.7BSC
Plus Code: 9C3XFJ97+Q6
Entry Name: Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375624
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469598
ID on this website: 101375624
Location: Hounslow West, Hounslow, London, TW4
County: London
District: Hounslow
Electoral Ward/Division: Hounslow West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hounslow
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Paul and The Good Shepherd, Hounslow
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Former hospital
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TQ 1175 NE
787/41/10034
BEAVERS LANE, Hounslow (North side)
Former Hospital (Building 42), Hounslow Barracks.
(Formerly Listed as FORMER HOSPITAL BUILDING (BUILDING 41), HOUNDSLOW BARRACKS)
GV
II
Barracks hospital, later sergeant's mess, now housing. c1793, by J Johnson, architect for the Barrack Department; altered 1920-1950. Yellow stock brick with hipped slate roof. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys; five window range. Symmetrical front has a mid-C20 doorway and door, with inserted windows to the left; remaining windows have segmental-arched heads to eight/eight pane horned sashes. On the left-hand side is a single-storey lean-to.
INTERIOR: rebuilt c1930.
HISTORY: the original barracks hospital, though much altered internally. Hounslow is the only surviving barracks of the first national barrack building campaign in England, authorised by Pitt for internal policing of major cities. The hospital is part of the original plan of the barracks, and one of only three barracks hospitals of this period, with those at Higher barracks, Exeter, and Poundbury barracks, Dorchester. Included for historic interest.
James Col J: Plans of the Barracks of England: London District: London: 1861.
Listing NGR: TQ1213475731
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