Officers Mess, Jellalabad Barracks (Building No 73)

This building is an officers’ mess and quarters, constructed in 1905, with later additions to the rear wings. It is built of red brick in English bond, with rubbed brick dressings, brick ridge stacks, and stone dressings. The roofs are tiled.

The building follows a single-depth plan, consisting of a rectangular front range and rear quarter and service wings. The front façade is two storeys high, with a central block of ten bays and set-back end sections of five bays on the left and four bays on the right. A plat band runs across the façade. The central section is taller, featuring a central entrance bay with an open pediment containing a Coat of Arms with “ER 1905” and a crown in relief. Below this is a brick Ionic diastyle-in-antis porch with an entablature, parapet with front balustrade, and open sides. “JELLALABAD” is inscribed in the fascia. The round-arched doorway, with a fanlight and keystone, has double six-panel doors with side lights. A doorway with architrave and cornice is on the right-hand return. Either side of the porch are canted three-light bay windows with a blocking course. The windows have rubbed brick heads and comprise plate-glass horned sashes and six-over-six horned sashes. The left-hand return is hung with mid-20th-century composite tiles. To the rear are two-storey quarter blocks and a single-storey service block. The roofs are hipped, with oversailing eaves supported by brackets in the centre, and ridge stacks.

Inside, the wide entrance lobby features a mosaic floor inscribed "ER 1905" and is lit by three high windows in the rear wall and a tall sash to the rear left. An axial passage leads to mess rooms on either side. The left-hand mess room has a timber fireplace and pilasters to a plaster cornice. The right-hand mess room has a stone fireplace. At each end are rear dogleg stairs with a curtail and timber balustrade. To the rear are kitchens, sitting rooms, and the quarter blocks. Throughout the building are panelled doors, dado rail and skirting, and other joinery details. Modern fixtures and fittings are excluded from the listing.