A and B the Terrace, Horseshoe Barracks
A AND B THE TERRACE, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, WARRIOR SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236487
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- A and B the Terrace, Horseshoe Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- A AND B THE TERRACE, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, WARRIOR SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236487
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- A and B the Terrace, Horseshoe Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- A AND B THE TERRACE, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, WARRIOR SQUARE
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:
- A AND B THE TERRACE, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, WARRIOR SQUARE
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 93550 84684
Details
TQ 98 SW SOUTHEND ON SEA WARRIOR SQUARE
(north side), Shoebury Garrison
5/725 A and B The Terrace, Horseshoe Barracks
28.4.86
GV II
Surgeon's quarters (Block B) at British School of Gunnery, instructor's quarter added. 1861-2, altered c1870. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick flat arches, brick ridge, right-hand gable and left-hand lateral stacks and slate roof. PLAN: double-depth plan with rear service blocks. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 6-bay range. Pair of 3-window houses with plat band and coped gables on corbelled kneelers, left-hand cross gable has a canted 3-window bay with parapet; rubbed brick segmental-arched windows with 6/6-pane sashes to the middle of each ground floor and the bay, timber tripartite 4/4-pane ground-floor and 2/2-pane first-floor sashes, and plate-glass central first-floor sashes.
Returns have flat-arched porches to the rear with flat-headed doorways with overlights and half-glazed doors. Rear has projecting single-storey service blocks. INTERIOR: has a central axial passage, stairs with turned balusters and uncut string, stone fireplaces with pilasters, and 4-panel doors. HISTORY: the RA School opened in 1859. Contains architectural distinctions reflecting the rank of the occupant. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: RA Barracks and Old Ranges: Warrior Square Officers' Quarters: 1860-: CTR 357-358; Glennie D: Gunners Town: History of Shoeburyness: Civic Publications: 1948-).
Listing NGR: TQ9355084684
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122960
- 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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