Cook House To Rear Of Block Lm, Horseshoe Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Southend-on-Sea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1998. Cookhouse.
Cook House To Rear Of Block Lm, Horseshoe Barracks
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-jade-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southend-on-Sea
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1998
- Type
- Cookhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 98 SW SOUTHEND ON SEA CHAPEL ROAD (East side) Shoebury Garrison 840-0/5/10042 Cookhouse to rear of block LM, Horseshoe Barracks
GV II
Cook house to barracks, British School of Gunnery. 1859. Yellow stock brick with slate hipped roof. Square single room plan. EXTERIOR: small ancillary unit to rear of barrack block has 6/6-pane sashes each end and an entrance facing the barracks, with a raised ridge with side louvres. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: separate cook houses were an innovation at barracks, where food was usually prepared in the rooms. Included as a very rare example of its type and an important functional part of the barracks, itself a unique example of military planning.
Listing NGR: TQ9379884827
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