Gateway And Two Flanking Guardrooms To Former Beaumont Cavalry Barracks

The gateway and two flanking guardrooms to the former Beaumont Cavalry Barracks, built in 1856, are currently disused. Constructed from yellow stock brick with Portland stone and rubbed brick dressings, the buildings feature a slate roof. The guardrooms are single-storey and arranged on opposite sides of a paved area, connected by an entrance gate.

The exterior includes five-bay guardrooms with two-window street gables. There are two pairs of square piers with plinths and stone caps, featuring shallow brackets and square lamps on cast-iron moulded shafts at the inner piers. The entrance has mid-20th century metal gates and outer flat-headed wickets set within segmental arches that contain stone panels. The left panel is inscribed with "VP" in raised letters surrounded by oak leaves above the words "SOUTH CAVALRY BARRACKS," while the right panel reads "ERECTED 1856." Short walls connect the piers to the guardrooms, which have outer pilasters matching the piers, leading to coped gables over rusticated segmental-arched sunken panels that contain two small segmental-arched 4/4-pane sash windows. The opposite gables feature a brick dentil cornice, three sunken panels, and a lunette. The inner sides of the guardrooms have three 6/6-pane sash windows and panelled doors flanking the inner window, along with a cast-iron verandah supported by six elliptical arches on thin octagonal posts with open spandrels. The rear of the paved area is enclosed by late 20th-century walls and railings.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, this site, along with the Beaumont Riding School, represents the last surviving part of the Beaumont or South Cavalry Barracks. It was part of an innovative approach to barracks planning and was one of three original permanent cavalry barracks built at the Wellington Lines in Aldershot.