Proof and Experimental Establishment, Shoebury Garrison, Old Ranges, Former Light Quick Firing Battery
PROOF AND EXPERIMENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, SHOEBURY GARRISON, OLD RANGES, FORMER LIGHT QUICK FIRING BATTERY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236492
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Proof and Experimental Establishment, Shoebury Garrison, Old Ranges, Former Light Quick Firing Battery
- Statutory Address:
- PROOF AND EXPERIMENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, SHOEBURY GARRISON, OLD RANGES, FORMER LIGHT QUICK FIRING BATTERY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1236492
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Proof and Experimental Establishment, Shoebury Garrison, Old Ranges, Former Light Quick Firing Battery
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROOF AND EXPERIMENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, SHOEBURY GARRISON, OLD RANGES, FORMER LIGHT QUICK FIRING BATTERY
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:
- PROOF AND EXPERIMENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, SHOEBURY GARRISON, OLD RANGES, FORMER LIGHT QUICK FIRING BATTERY
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 93485 84039
Details
PROOF AND EXPERIMENTAL 1. ESTABLISHMENT, SHOEBURY 5219 GARRISON Old Ranges: Former TQ 98 SW SP/724 Light Quick-Firing Battery II 2. Light Quick-Firing Battery, now disused, former casemates, 1870s, remodelled early 1890s as Light Quick-Firing Battery. Stock brick with iron frame, C20 rendering to upper part. 2 chambers set askew. Right part: massive piers with black brick quoins flanking iron frame of 3 bays. Wooden door frame (door missing) between 2 upright girders supporting wall plate. Iron-clad barrel-vaulted roof with mantle rail above blocked casemate. Part of plank floor survives. Left part: Truncated and re-fronted in yellow brick with four-course relieving arch above small wooden door frame. Buttresses at left corner have traces of high brick arches, now demolished. Three-bay barrel-vaulted roof with brick infill; C20 brick partition. Interesting late example of a casemate and unique because referred to as an'experimental casemate'in contemporary documents. A photograph (PIB/202) of c.1896-8 shows the arrangement of rifle muzzle loading guns on the pier.
Listing NGR: TQ9348584039
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122965
- 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.
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