Yeomanry Hall And Attached Building Bordering Yard To South Yeomanry House

This is a complex of buildings comprising a former officer's house, barracks, and a Masonic hall, dating from the early 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. The complex now forms part of the University of Buckingham.

The officer’s house is rendered with incised masonry patterns and has a slate roof with brick end stacks. It is laid out in an L-shape and has three storeys and a three-window front. The central entrance features double doors approached by stone steps with a leaded overlight, panelled reveals, and a moulded, rendered surround topped with a pediment supported on console brackets. The ground and first floors have 16-pane sash windows, while the second floor has 12-pane sashes, all with rendered sills. The facade has a plinth with a hollow-chamfered top moulding, pilaster strips with Ionic capitals at either end, a moulded cornice with egg-and-dart ornament, and a coped parapet. A two-storey wing extends to the rear right.

To the left of the house stands the brick-built Masonic hall in English bond, also with a slate roof. Its gable end facing the street has a leaded, three-light mullion window with three transoms; the top transom is thicker and is ornamented, with Tudor-arched heads to the top lights. The window has a raised brick surround, moulded sill, and flat-arched head. The side elevation to the left features three bays of similar windows with one transom and stop-chamfered wood lintels. A projecting bay, or oriel, has windows of four lights to the front and one light to the sides, all with two transoms and stop-chamfered wood lintels. The front has a wave-moulded plinth, a moulded sill band, rusticated brick quoins above the band, and a pediment framed by brick mouldings. The angles and apex of the pediment are of ironstone, and the gable has an ironstone kneeler to the left. The side has cogged brick eaves.

The former barracks surround the remaining sides of a yard and are constructed of coursed squared limestone faced with red brick in Flemish bond to the yard elevations, now partly rendered, under slate roofs. A gable end facing the street has a loft door with a wooden lintel. The two-storey yard elevations have sash and casement windows. Semicircular windows on the ground floor of the range behind the house likely represent former stabling. Cogged brick eaves are present.

Inside the house, a former open-well stair has painted stick balusters and a mahogany handrail. The hall features a four-bay open roof with arch-braced, brattished tie beams resting on stone corbels, queen posts to collars, king posts, and three tiers of through purlins. The first floor of the former barracks, now a library, has stop-chamfered beams. One beam displays a painted inscription commemorating Lord Nelson's death in 1805, and another bears the inscription “Burdett and Liberty forever.” Other faded inscriptions are dated 1819. A further L-shaped room has an open roof of tie beams, queen struts, and two tiers of butt purlins with trusses numbered in Roman numerals for assembly.