Naafi (Building 9), Hounslow Barracks

TQ 1175 NE BEAVERS LANE, Hounslow (North side) 787/41/10035 Naafi (Building 9), Hounslow Barracks

GV II

Canteen, reading room and sergeant's mess; now Naafi. 1875, signed by Colonel CB Ewart, RE, Inspector General of Fortifications office; extended and altered early-mid C20. Yellow stock brick with brick right-hand lateral stacks and a slate U-shaped hipped roof Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 3:1:3:1-window range. Irregular front with pale brick bands to ground-floor cills and lintels and segmental-arched window heads, with a patterned band between floors, flat-headed first-floor windows and bracketed eaves cornice; left-hand section set forward, central entrance bay beneath an ashlar clock tower with segmental-arched cornice, paired first-floor windows and projecting porch \vith a lean-to roof Tall metal-paned windows. Right-hand single-storey block with 5-window right-hand return. Left-hand return includes 2 large round-arched ground-floor windows in matching recesses. INTERIOR: has a central stair hall with a dogleg stair, plain cornices, and C20 iron roofjoists; full-depth left-hand ground-floor mess room. HISTOR Y: used to provide canteen and recreation facilities. Added as part of the development of the barracks as one of the double Localisation depot under the Cardwell reforms, and indicative of the rising standard of living coniditions in anny barracks. Included as part of one of the most complete and significant barracks in the country . (Watson ColonelSirH M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157-160; Ewart CB:Plans and elevations: 1875-: PRO, WORK43/51).

Listing NGR: TQ1184075743