GATEWAY, OFFICES AND GUARD HOUSE, WITH WALLED EXERCISE YARD, HORSESHOE BARRACKS

GATEWAY, OFFICES AND GUARD HOUSE, WITH WALLED EXERCISE YARD, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, CHAPEL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1112721
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY, OFFICES AND GUARD HOUSE, WITH WALLED EXERCISE YARD, HORSESHOE BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY, OFFICES AND GUARD HOUSE, WITH WALLED EXERCISE YARD, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, CHAPEL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1112721
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY, OFFICES AND GUARD HOUSE, WITH WALLED EXERCISE YARD, HORSESHOE BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY, OFFICES AND GUARD HOUSE, WITH WALLED EXERCISE YARD, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, CHAPEL ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY, OFFICES AND GUARD HOUSE, WITH WALLED EXERCISE YARD, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, CHAPEL ROAD

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 93684 84772

Details

In the entry for SHOEBURY GARRISON Clock Tower 5/85

The address shall be amended to read: CHAPEL ROAD (north-east side) SHOEBURYNESS Gatehouse/Clock, Tower flanking buildings and wall of former exercise yard at Shoebury Garrison

The description should be amended to read:

Gatehouse with clock tower, former regimental offices, and guard room. 1856. Stock brick laid partly in rusticated bands with hipped slate roof to left (south east) part and flat roof to right (north west) part. 3-arched gateway with clock tower and lantern flanked by single storey ranges. Tall central round headed arch with rusticated brick voussoirs breaks forward from smaller flanking arches also with rusticated voussoirs. Centre part has brick cornice below 4-faced clock tower with recessed corner pilasters and surmounted by a lantern with modillion cornice and pyramidal slate roof. Monumental arch is flanked by 3-bay arcades fronting the sing1e storey ranges which have glazing bar sash windows. Interior of the guard room (right part) retains corridor with 3 small unlit cells and 2 groups of 5 larger cells, some with wooden beds. End door leads to walled exercise yard.

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SHOEBURY GARRISON 1. 5219 Clock Tower TQ 98 SW 5/85 II 2. A monumental arched gateway surmounted by a clock tower and arched cupola. Built in 1856, in yellow brick. It comprises a central tall semi-circular archway with rusticated brick voussoirs which breaks forward from smaller flanking arches also with rusticated voussoirs. The centre part has a brick cornice with blocking courses and is surmounted by a square clock tower with an open arched cupola above, with a pyramid slate roof with shaped eaves brackets. The archways are flanked by single storeyed buildings in similar style. The brickwork is laid with recessed horizontal courses simulating ashlar.

Listing NGR: TQ9368484772

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 122922
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

Legal

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