Description

TQ 98 SW
5/97
28.4.86

SOUTHEND ON SEA
WARRIOR SQUARE
(north west side), Shoebury Garrison Carriage/Wagon Shed, Horseshoe Barracks

GV
II

Vehicle shed at British School of Gunnery, now workshops an stores. c1860s. Cast-iron frame with wrought-iron trusses and corrugated iron roof, and mid C20 rendered infill. Iron frame has I-section beams bolted together, with cast brackets supporting the gutter, and curved ends with sunken panels to round posts, on sandstone plinths at the S end where the ground falls. INTERIOR: has wrought-iron trusses with round ties and angle iron struts. HISTORY: the School of the RA opened in 1859. Included as an example of a prefabricated store, forming part of a complete mid C19 barracks. (Glennie D: Gunners Town: History of Shoeburyness: Civic Publications: 1948-).

Listing NGR: TQ9361384380

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608145

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)