The Staff College

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SU 86SE 3/24

CAMBERLEY & FRIMLEY FORMER U.D. CAMBERLEY LONDON ROAD The Staff College

(Formerly listed as Staff College of The Royal Military College)

GV II

College. 1862 by Pennethorne in Victorian Country house style. Stock brick on stone plinth with channelled rustication on ground floor and dressings, quoins and centrepiece; mansard slate roofs. Three storeys and attics under flat roof sash dormer windows with decorative plat band over ground floor, cill band to second floor and heavy modillion and bracket eave cornice; stacks to return fronts under semi-circular decorations to tops. Twenty-five bay front with sash windows in moulded architrave surrounds, ground and first floor windows under hoods on brackets.

Four storey corner pavilions; angle piers and an order on all four storeys: attached Tuscan to ground floor, Ionic on first floor, antae on second and third. Balustrade with panelled piers to top. Round turret with glazed drum and ogee dome to left hand corner pavilion. Four storey three bay frontispiece with pedimented aedicule containing military trophies surmounted by a flagpole above the main cornice. Tripartite window on second floor, single window to centre of first floor with triangular pediment over on brackets. Central double panelled doors flanked by half columns in Antis with cornice projecting either side on two full columns.

Library:

Interior:-/ Edwardian panelling with Ionic pilasters. Central Roman entrance Hall, two storeys with encircling gallery. Black and White stone floor : Doric order below, Ionic order above on columned screens. Fine Ionic columned staircase.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p,128.

Listing NGR: SU8726860926