Proof And Experimental Establishment, Shoebury Garrison, Old Ranges, Former Light Quick Firing Battery

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