Hospital, Attached Blocks I-j, and Attached Front Walls, Shoebury Garrison
HOSPITAL, ATTACHED BLOCKS I-J, AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, SHOEBURY GARRISON, HOSPITAL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236472
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hospital, Attached Blocks I-j, and Attached Front Walls, Shoebury Garrison
- Statutory Address:
- HOSPITAL, ATTACHED BLOCKS I-J, AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, SHOEBURY GARRISON, HOSPITAL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236472
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Hospital, Attached Blocks I-j, and Attached Front Walls, Shoebury Garrison
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOSPITAL, ATTACHED BLOCKS I-J, AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, SHOEBURY GARRISON, HOSPITAL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HOSPITAL, ATTACHED BLOCKS I-J, AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, SHOEBURY GARRISON, HOSPITAL 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 93893 84733
Details
TQ 98 SW SOUTHEND ON SEA HOSPITAL ROAD
(north west side),
Shoebury Garrison
5/93 Hospital, attached Blocks I-J, and attached front walls, Shoebury Garrison
28.4.86
GV II
Hospital and attached staff quarters. Dated 1856, drawings signed by Captain R S Beatson, RE. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick dressings, brick gable stacks, and slate roof. PLAN: double-depth plan hospital with rear service and kitchen block, double-depth plan wings each side with rear service block attached. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 5-window range, single-storey; 5-bay left-hand staff wing. Symmetrical hospital front has overhanging bracketed eaves, a porch with stucco cornice and pilasters, double 4-panel doors and overlight, and sashes to the sides, a central gable to a first-floor Venetian window with stucco surround, and flat-headed 6/6-pane sashes. A passage with WCs connects to a rear has a central, square, single-storey cook house and ablution block with a louvred ridge lantern flanking a central stack. Staff wing has flat-headed 4/4-pane sashes with a mid C20 door and overlight. INTERIOR: not inspected; drawings show central stair hall with wards each side. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front wall, with capped piers and metal railings encloses forecourt. Attached buttresses rear wall extends from the hospital enclosing the rear section. HISTORY: one of only two regimental military hospitals in barracks (Fulwood, Preston contains the other) of this period. Beatson was one of the important group of Engineer officers, although the double-depth planning of the wards pre-dates the pavilion plan which dominated hospital design from the 1860s. One of the first buildings at the British School of Gunnery, authorised 1856, for the RA; part of a group with the NCO terraces each side (qv), within a complete mid C19 barracks. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: 1863-: CTR 130-158; Glennie D: Gunners Town: History of Shoeburyness: Civic Publications: 1948-).
Listing NGR: TQ9389384733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122957
- 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.
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