Government House, Aldershot
| Government House | |
| Hampshire | |
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU86655331 |
| Location: | 51°16’21"N, -0°45’33"W |
| Village: | Aldershot |
| History | |
| House | |
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Government House is a building in Aldershot Garrison near Aldershot, at the eastern edge of Hampshire.
The house is a Grade II listed building.[1]
History
The house was built in Queen Anne revival style as the garrison commander's house in 1883.[1] A military horse cemetery was created in the grounds of the house in the late 1880s.[2]
After a serious fire in 1903, the house was remodelled internally and it became the garrison officers' mess.[3] In May 1904, shortly after the house re-opened, Lieutenant General Sir John French, Commanding the Troops at Aldershot, hosted a visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales there[4] and in July 1914 Lieutenant General Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief Aldershot Command, was waiting anxiously inside the house when he heard that the First World War had broken out.[5]
In the 1920s and 1930s searchlight military tattoos were held in the grounds of Government House.[6]
The building was again extensively refurbished in 2012 by Rydon[7] and the Queen's Dining Room continues to be used to entertain important visitors to the garrison.[3] The stables at the house will be converted for use as accommodation as part of the'Army 2020' plan.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1272436: Government House Mess, Farnborough Road
- ↑ "Warhorse". Army Golf Club. http://www.liphookgolfclub.com/magazine/world_of_golf/army_golf_club. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Government House". Rydon. http://www.rydon.co.uk/what-we-do/rydon-in-the-south-west/case-studies/south-west/government-house. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ "Group photograph including the Prince and Princess of Wales, taken at Aldershot, May 1904". Royal Collection Trust. https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2301998/group-photograph-including-the-prince-and-princess-of-wales-taken-at-aldershot. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ Rowlands, p. 56
- ↑ "The Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoos". Aldershot Military Museum. Archived from the original on 23 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141123135842/http://www3.hants.gov.uk/aldershot-museum/local-history-aldershot/aldershot-tattoo.htm. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ "Aspirations". Aspire Defence. Spring 2013. p. 9. http://www.aspiredefence.co.uk/docLib/aspirations/Aspirations-2013-fv.pdf. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ "MoD to reveal base plans for soldiers returning from Germany". Get Hampshire. 22 July 2014. http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/news/local-news/mod-reveal-aldershot-base-plans-7472455. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- Rowlands, Murray (2015). Aldershot in the Great War: The Home of the British Army. Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978-1783832026. https://books.google.com/books?id=8_mxBgAAQBAJ&q=government+house+aldershot&pg=PA56.