1880 – Hyde Park Barracks, Knightsbridge, London

The second stables and barracks in this location, which has been in continuous use as such since 1795, and home of the Household Cavalry. The War Office gave the commission for designing the new barracks to T.H. Wyatt, the winner, with his brother Mathew Digby Wyatt, of the cavalry barracks competition of 1855. It appears that his role from the start was limited to that of providing attractive façades for a project which enjoyed little if any public favour. The architects of the Royal Engineers having done a lot of design work before his appointment. Construction started in 1878 and was completed in May 1880. The barracks façades were among T.H. Wyatt’s most accomplished public-building designs, and the new barracks itself was acknowledged by the army to be ‘the finest in the kingdom’ in its standards of accommodation and sanitation. Faced in red brick with Portland-stone dressings and sculptured decoration. Demolished in the latter half 1965, and replaced with a new barracks by Sir Basil Spence.

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