Local
Architecture of Interest
North
Camp Village has many places of architectural interest, modern
and old. from a range of periods.
Some
points of interest include:
Kingdom
Hall, Camp Road
Natwest Bank, 2 Alexandra Road
North Camp Train Station
Farnborough College of technology
The North Camp Pub, Lynchford Road
The Air Traffic Control Tower at Farnborough Airport
Listed Buildings in and around North Camp
Guildford
Road West, Farnborough - Farnborough Town Hall
Grade
II, Year Listed 1981
Date
when first listed: 09/10/1981.
1897
by George Sherrin. Symmetrical façade on prominent site
at junction of roads, in the centre of Victorian Farnborough,
north of the Camp. 2 storeys; blank, 3 blank windows. Slate hipped
roofing in diminishing courses, with large moulded and bracketed
eaves cornice. Red brick walling with Bath stone dressings, with
first floor band, corner pilasters above the band and quoins
below, plinth. Centrepiece has eaves cornice carried over as
an arch; first floor windows are strings of casements, ground
floor are mullions/transoms within arches. Wings in similar style.
Boundary Road, Farnborough - Crossways
Grade
II
Crossways
(Travel Offices Philleas Fogg).
Mid
C19, sever Regency style. Former pair of houses, now offices;
2 storeys. Main front has 6 windows. Low pitched roof (mastic
over slate), wide eaves on coupled brackets. Cement walls, first
floor decorated band, quoins and plinth. Plain architraves to
first floor openings, on north and west fronts ground floor windows
have a cornice on brackets, extending to width of shutters. North
front has 3 windows and a wide arched central door, south front
has 3 windows and narrow arched doorway. Sash windows.
Queen's
Avenue, Aldershot - Aldershot Military Museum, N Block
Grade
II
Barrack
hut, now museum. 1894.
Brick
with yellow brick dressings, 3 brick front lateral stacks and
slate roof. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: single storey; 3:3:4-window
range. Low plinth, yellow brick quoins and brick dentil eaves
cornice, off-centre gable, with rubbed brick segmental-arches
to 6/6-pane horned sashes. Gable obscured by a later flat-roofed
service block with 3 small windows. Opposite side a 3:6:2-window
range separated by gable porches with recessed doors. INTERIOR:
plain ceiled barrack room with privies in recesses in sides.
HISTORY:
part of Oudinard barracks, Marlborough Lines, with M block (qv)
one of the last two examples of ordinary soldiers’ accommodation
at Aldershot from the 1881-98 rebuilding of the original hutted
camp.
Queen's Avenue, Aldershot - Aldershot Military Museum, M Block
Grade
II
Barrack
hut, now museum archive. 1894.
Brick
with yellow brick dressings, 3 brick front lateral stacks and
slate roof. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR:Single storey; 3.3.4-widow
range. Low plinth, yellow brick quoins and brick dentil eaves
cornice, off-centre gable, with rubbed brick segmental-arches
to 6/6-pane horned sashes. Gable obscured by a later flat-roofed
service block with 3 small windows. Opposite side a 3:6:2-window
range separated by gabled porches with recessed doors. INTERIOR
Not inspected but noted as containing plain ceiled barrack rooms
with privies in recesses in sides.
HISTORY:
part of Oudinard barracks, Marlborough Lines, with N block (qv)
one the last two examples of ordinary soldiers’ accommodation
at Aldershot from the 1881-1898 rebuilding of the original hutted
camp.
Lynchford Road, Farnborough - Officer's Mess at Lille Barracks
Grade
II
Circa
1890.
Long
symmetrical south elevation, with raised projected centrepiece,
and lesser projected ends. The rear has several projecting wings,
in near symmetrical form, but providing different west and east
elevations. 2 storeys; 2.2:2.1: 2.2.2.2:2.1.2.2.2 windows, Slate
hipped roofing; central small gable. Red brick walling; cambered
openings, cill-level bands at ground and first floors, plinth.
Central open porch with a 3-light bay on each side. East façade
has a projecting 2-storey entrance unit, with gable. Sash windows.
Included
as one of three surviving mess buildings, illustrating a typical
form. (Information from Lt Col H N Cole.)
For
a full rundown of listed buildings in Rushmoor please go to :
http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1427 |
