RIFLE RANGE AND TARGETS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391370
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-2005
List Entry Name:: RIFLE RANGE AND TARGETS
Statutory Address:: RIFLE RANGE AND TARGETS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391370
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-2005
List Entry Name:: RIFLE RANGE AND TARGETS
Statutory Address 1:: RIFLE RANGE AND TARGETS

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RIFLE RANGE AND TARGETS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Upton-upon-Severn
National Grid Reference:: SO8596439606

Details

1132/0/10002 07-MAR-05

UPTON UPON SEVERN Rifle Range and Targets

II

Rifle Range Target. C.1860. Blue and red brick laid in English bond. A tall wall [the stop wall] c.7m. high and 30 m. long with end sections returned at roughly 45 degrees [the screen walls]. To the rear the structure is supported by 3 stepped buttresses. The front wall facing down the range is mostly of hard blue brick in English bond with some red brick patching. The rear elevation is of red brick with limestone caps to the buttresses and moulded brick to the angles. Brick coping. Wall across the front formerly incorporating roofed cubicles or supporting a wooden platform from which targets were raised is now fragmentary but stands in places up to level of joist holes in the stop wall at roughly a third of its height. the targets, often of paper, hung on frames, sometimes metal, were raised on pulleys. Later rebuilding/extension mostly in red brick of the screen walls and front wall, which created the protected covered way shielding the operators.

Following the outbreak of the Crimean War and during the late 1850s a series of rifle volunteer units were formed across the country in anticipation of war with France. Four years previously Lord Palmerstone oversaw a Royal Commission to analyse British Defences which led to the building of a string of forts along the south coast of Britain; local provision was also encouraged. Some 21 independent rifle companies were formed in Worcestershire of which the Upton Company was the 19th. In 1860 they were formed into 2 administrative battalions. The rifle range was built to enable target practice. A 1,000 yard range was built on an area of charity land called the Upper Ham. The range continued to be used by the County Territorial Army Association until 1925 and was used again in the Second World War by the Home Guard.

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Legacy System number:: 491938
Legacy System:: LBS

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