Sergeants Mess, Winston Barracks, Hyndford Road

The Sergeants Mess at Winston Barracks, probably built by the War Office between 1936 and 1939, is a single-storey building with an attic, comprising seven bays and a wing extending to the northeast. It is constructed of coursed red brick with brick dressings, featuring overhanging eaves and a piend-roofed rectangular dormers to the attic. Tall brick stacks are also present.

The north (entrance) elevation is near-symmetrical with seven bays. A timber architraved doorway is set forward in the centre of the ground floor, containing a two-leaf panelled timber door and a four-pane fanlight. Small windows flank the door to the left and right, and there are bipartite windows in the penultimate bays to the left and right. Three tripartite dormers are positioned in the centre of the attic floor, flanked by bipartite dormers to the left and right. A single-storey service wing adjoins the outer left, with four windows featuring louvred upper panes. The right return of the service wing has irregular fenestration, with a bipartite window to the left return and boarded timber doors to the south.

The west elevation is asymmetrical with five bays: three regularly placed windows are present on the left of the ground floor, with two bipartite dormers above. A gabled ingleneuk projects to the right, with a flue advanced to the centre, flanked by two small windows to the left and right. Tiled corbels are at the gable ends, and the bay to the outer right is blank.

The south elevation is asymmetrical with seven bays, with two bays advanced; each has a bipartite window to the ground floor. Regular fenestration is found in the four flanking bays to the right. A bricked-up opening is present in the bay to the far outer right, with a coped brick wall extending to that point. Three tripartite dormers are centred on the attic floor.

The east elevation is asymmetrical with two bays, featuring a bipartite window to the centre of the ground floor and two bipartite dormers to the attic floor above. The service wing is advanced to the outer right, and a small courtyard is enclosed by a brick wall with a boarded timber gate, extending from the service wing.

The windows are predominantly timber casements with six and eight panes, or designs incorporating top hoppers. The roof is covered with rosemary tiles, with coped brick stacks that break the pitch, along with ridge and gablehead stacks featuring circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are incorporated.

The interior has simple mouldings, with a timber-panelled entrance hall and staircase. A large principal lounge is on the ground floor, and the ingleneuk features a brick fireplace, timber seating and surround, a recessed timber bench, original tiled fireplaces, and glazed cupboards.