Blocks A-D, Horseshoe Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Southend-on-Sea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. Military barracks. 7 related planning applications.
Blocks A-D, Horseshoe Barracks
- WRENN ID
- sunken-plinth-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southend-on-Sea
- Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1986
- Type
- Military barracks
- Address
- Blocks A-D, Horseshoe Barracks, 1-7, Warrior Square, SS3 9PZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 937 847
- Coordinates
- 51.52806, 0.79109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of four officers' quarters located within the British School of Gunnery, now used as houses. They were built in 1860, with Block D added around 1870 and alterations made in 1925. The buildings are constructed of yellow stock brick with rubbed brick flat arches, brick ridge stacks, and a slate roof, and are in a late Georgian style. They have a single-depth plan with service blocks to the rear.
The exterior of each house comprises two storeys and a five-window range. The symmetrical front features a plat band and an overhanging roof. Each house has a central flat-headed porch with narrow side lights, a flat-headed door with overlight, double-panelled doors, and narrow sash windows with 6/6-pane glazing. The end gables, each with a one-window range, have a blind attic lunette.
The interior was not inspected but is said to contain a dogleg staircase leading from the entrance hall. The Royal Artillery School opened in 1859. Originally, each house had rooms for four officers at the front and servants’ quarters to the rear.
Local climate
Blocks A-D, Horseshoe Barracks receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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