Former Officers Mess and Quarters to Hounslow Cavalry Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1978. A C18 Military quarters.
Former Officers Mess and Quarters to Hounslow Cavalry Barracks
- WRENN ID
- vast-minaret-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Constituency
- Feltham and Heston MP: Seema Malhotra (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1978
- Type
- Military quarters
- Address
- Former Officers Mess and Quarters to Hounslow Cavalry Barracks, Beavers Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 119 757
- Coordinates
- 51.4695, -0.38925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Officers' Mess and Quarters to Hounslow Cavalry Barracks is a building dating from around 1793, designed by James Johnson. Originally built as officers' quarters, it was significantly extended by C. B. Ewart in 1876 to include an officers' mess. The central part of the building retains its earlier E plan layout but has been refronted to the south.
The north side of the original 1793 block features two storeys and nine bays, constructed from multi-coloured stock brick. There is a four-bay west wing that includes a ground storey verandah supported by cast-iron columns. The south front, completed in 1876, showcases a three-storey central section with fifteen bays, arranged in a 4:7:3 pattern, flanked by two-storey wings. The central five bays are highlighted by a gabled porch with columns that have foliage capitals. The side wings, which consist of four and three bays, are set forward and also gabled. The building is made of yellow stock brick with white bands, featuring segmental and arched window heads. The central block has eaves-breaking gabled dormers on the second floor flanking the bays. The roofs are slated and include prominent chimney stacks.
Local climate
Former Officers Mess and Quarters to Hounslow Cavalry Barracks sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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