Long Course Officer's Quarters and Attached Railings, Horseshoe Barracks
LONG COURSE OFFICER'S QUARTERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, CHAPEL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264599
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Long Course Officer's Quarters and Attached Railings, Horseshoe Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- LONG COURSE OFFICER'S QUARTERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, CHAPEL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264599
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Long Course Officer's Quarters and Attached Railings, Horseshoe Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONG COURSE OFFICER'S QUARTERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, HORSESHOE BARRACKS, CHAPEL 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:
- LONG COURSE OFFICER'S QUARTERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 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 93943 84611
Details
TQ 98 SW SOUTHEND ON SEA CHAPEL ROAD
(north east side),
Shoebury Garrison
5/99 Long Course Officer's
28.4.96 Quarters and attached
railings, Horseshoe
Barracks
GV II
Single officer's quarters at British School of Gunnery. 1871. Yellow stock brick with brick ridge stacks and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 21-window range. Long symmetrical front articulated by giant pilaster strips, paired to entrance bays, to overhanging eaves, with plat bands to ground and first floors. Doorways to the centre and 4 bays from the ends, with an inserted entrance in the right-hand bay, with rubbed brick segmental-arched heads to doorways with 3-pane overlights and double 4-panel doors, and 6/6-pane sashes; short bridge steps span the basement area with coped walls; the later right-hand doorway has a concrete bridge with iron railings. Rear has 3 attached ablution towers. INTERIOR: stairs from the entrances have metal balusters and curtails, to altered rooms, originally front and back of a spine wall with fireplaces. HISTORY: the British School of Gunnery opened in 1859, and the Long Course started on 1860. The barracks provided accommodation for the RA involved in testing guns, ammunition and armour for the army and navy. (Glennie D: Gunners Town: History of Shoeburyness: Civic Publications: 1948-).
Listing NGR: TQ9394384611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122954
- 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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