Knightsbridge Barracks, Knightsbridge
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Knightsbridge Barracks, Knightsbridge
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 7 Apr 2013
A supremely elegant tower, though controversial when it was built for its intrusion upon the park. After forty-plus years it has perhaps become part of the furniture. By Basil Spence & Partners, 1959-63 (built in 1967-70), for the Household Cavalry. In October 2015, an application for listing was rejected, against the advice of Historic England, a decision no doubt welcomed by the MoD which would like to sell the site for housing. Such a move would almost certainly involve the tower's demolition. The Twentieth Century Society thinks that DCMS, the department responsible for listing, caved into MoD lobbying.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.501992
Longitude
-0.166906