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Cavalry House, Duke of York's Headquarters (London)

United Kingdom / England / London / Turks Row
 Georgian (architecture), Grade II Listed (UK), 19th century construction
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Cavalry barracks, now offices. Early-mid C19, completely rebuilt internally c1994. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick and limestone dressing, brick ridge stacks, roof not visible. Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 19-window range. Symmetrical front with 2-window sections 1 window from the end set forward, ground-floor blind round-arched arcade with imposts and moulded archivolts, first- and second-floor cill bands, string and cornice to blocking course. Central entrance has a flat-headed raised surround set forward with cornice, keyed round-arched doorway with recessed late C20 door; rubbed brick round-arched ground-floor and flat-arched upper floor 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: completely rebuilt. Although the interior has been lost, this is an otherwise intact example of one of the few barracks built between the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars, and forms part of a good group with the Duke of York's Headquarters.

Currently there is a Garden House School located here.
www.gardenhouseschool.co.uk/
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Coordinates:   51°29'23"N   -0°9'27"E
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