Anglesey House

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SU 8449 NE 991-0/6/19

ALDERSHOT FARNBOROUGH ROAD (North west side) Anglesey House

9.6.82

II House, now offices. c1860. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick dressings, two brick exterior stacks each side and to rear, and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic and basement; three-bay range. Symmetrical front with plat band and attic cill band, beneath deep overhanging caves on plain brackets, with rubbed brick segmental-arched openings; two storey canted bays with ground-floor French windows, first floor six/six-pane sashes and four/four-pane sashes to the sides, and a central ground-floor six/six-pane sash, the tops of the bays form small balconies with cast-iron rails to wide half dormers with hipped roofs and paired six/six-pane sashes. Left-hand three window entrance front has a central porch with a round-arched doorway and full-height double doors with six sunken panels and a brickwork balustrade, exterior stack to the right, six/six-pane sashes with narrow windows between, and two hipped half dormers, the central one with two sashes. To the rear a pair of single-storey; four window blocks with hipped roofs extend back.

INTERIOR: has an entrance lobby to a central stair hall, and a dogleg stair with stick balusters, cast-iron newel and wreathed rail to curtail.

HISTORY: originally the house of the Divisional Commander, as part of the first generation of permanent barracks at Aldershot.

Listing NGR: SU8472249924