WEST POWDER MAGAZINE, SHOEBURY GARRISON

WEST POWDER MAGAZINE, SHOEBURY GARRISON, BEACH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236428
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: WEST POWDER MAGAZINE, SHOEBURY GARRISON
Statutory Address:: WEST POWDER MAGAZINE, SHOEBURY GARRISON, BEACH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236428
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: WEST POWDER MAGAZINE, SHOEBURY GARRISON
Statutory Address 1:: WEST POWDER MAGAZINE, SHOEBURY GARRISON, BEACH 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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WEST POWDER MAGAZINE, SHOEBURY GARRISON, BEACH 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 93696 84430

Details

TQ 98 SW SOUTHEND ON SEA BEACH ROAD (north side), Shoebury Garrison

5/10055 West Powder Magazine, Shoebury Garrison 28.4.86 GV II

Powder magazine. 1852-3. Stock brick, stone dressings and bitumen roof. Square plan with lean-to porch to E containing C20 iron door facing N. EXTERIOR: position of 3 cast-iron ventilator grills, some with wooden shutters, on 2 sides, indicates cavity wall and solid vault. Blocked opening in W wall. Low-pitched hipped roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: One of only 2 surviving magazines at the Establishment and one of the first brick buildings built there. Included as a important functional element within the British School of Gunnery.

Listing NGR: TQ9369684430

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 122952
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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