Barrack Masters House (Building 3) Hounslow Barracks

TQ 1175 NE BEAVERS LANE, Hounslow (North side) 787/41/10036 Barrack-Master's House (Building 3), Hounslow Barracks

GV II

Barrack master's house; now barracks. c1876, by Major CB Ewart, RE. Yellow stock brick with paler brick dressings, brick external stacks and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Right-hand 1-window section set back, multiple bands of paler brick to the windows, and bracketed eaves; central rubbed brick round-arched doorway with radial fanlight and C20 6-panel door, left-hand canted bay with a central tripartite window with turned mullions and 4/4-pane sashes, triple 6/6-pane sashes above, one over the doorway, and tripartite right-hand windows. Roof extends lower to rear with a pair of gabled half dormers with paired windows, and a right of centre doorway. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY : the Barrack Master was responsible for the barracks' organisation, and this is a rare example of a surviving house within a barracks for this officer. Added as part of the Cardwell Localisation reorganisation of Hounslow barracks as a double depot, and a significant functional component of the complete site. (Watson Colonel Sir H M: History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: Chatham: 1954-: 157 -160) .

Listing NGR: TQ1201875512