Officers Mess, Winston Barracks, Hyndford Road

Probably the War Office, 1936-1939. 2-storey, 5-bay Queen Anne style Officers' Mess with squash court adjoining to SW. Yellow-brown brick with painted architraved dressings. Projecting cills; overhanging eaves.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 5-bay; open pedimented porch on square-columns to centre of ground floor, round-arched doorway with glazed panelled timber door; regular fenestration to flanking bays to left, single

window and bipartite window to flanking bays to right, near-regular fenestration to 1st floor; wing advanced to outer right with squash court to W, glazed 11-pane skylight, tripartite windows to left return, regular fenestration to ground and 1st floor of 2-bay block to left.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 5-bay; window to centre of ground floor, flanked by irregular fenestration to left and right; tripartite window to centre of 1st floor, single window to outer right, tripartite and small window to outer left; gabled squash court advanced to outer left, single storey flat-roofed block to re-entrant angle to right, doorway to right return.

E ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay with single storey flat-roofed bay to outer left, 3 windows to ground floor, window to left of 1st floor.

Predominantly 6-pane and 9-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended yellow-brown concrete pantiled roof. Coped brick wallhead and ridge stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: simple detailing and mouldings.