BLOCKS A-D, HORSESHOE BARRACKS

1-7, WARRIOR SQUARE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1112692
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: BLOCKS A-D, HORSESHOE BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: 1-7, WARRIOR SQUARE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1112692
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: BLOCKS A-D, HORSESHOE BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: 1-7, WARRIOR SQUARE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-7, WARRIOR SQUARE, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Southend-on-Sea (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 93701 84708

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/09/2014

TQ 98 SW 5/728

SOUTHEND ON SEA, Shoebury Garrison, WARRIOR SQUARE (east side), No. 1-7, Blocks A-D, Horseshoe Barracks

(Formerly listed as Numbers 1-4 (Consecutive), Blocks A-D, Horseshoe Barracks)

28.4.86

GV II

Terrace of 4 officers' quarters at British School of Gunnery, now houses. 1860, Block D added c1870, altered 1925. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick flat arches, brick ridge stacks and slate roof. Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan with rear service blocks. EXTERIOR: each a 2-storey; 5-window range. Long symmetrical front with plat band and overhanging roof; each house has a central flat-headed porch with narrow side lights, flat-headed door with overlight and double panelled doors, and narrow side windows, with flat-headed 6/6-pane sashes. 1-window range end gables have a blind attic lunette. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having rear dogleg stair from entrance hall. HISTORY: the RA School opened in 1859. Each originally had rooms for 4 officers to the front and rear servants' quarters. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: RA Barracks and Old Ranges: 1860-: CTR 361-364; Glennie D: Gunners Town: History of Shoeburyness: Civic Publications: 1948-).

Listing NGR: TQ8832085635

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 122963
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Glennie, D, Gunners Town History of Shoeburyness, (1948)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.