Clerk Of Works House, Horseshoe Barracks

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TQ 98 SW 840-0/5/10056

SOUTHEND ON SEA, Shoebury Garrison, WARRIOR SQUARE (East side), No. 9 (Clerk of Works House, Horseshoe Barracks)

(Formerly listed as No 5 (Clerk of Works House, Horseshoe Barracks))

GV II

Officer's house at British School of Gunnery. c1861. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick heads, brick stacks, and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Entrance front has projecting coped gable with finial and k11eelers one bay from the left, first-floor brick string and cill course. Left-hand entrance bay set back with a segmental-arched doorway with plate-glass overlight and 4-panel door; segmental-arched 2/2-pane sashes, with keys on the ground floor, the front gable has a wide shallow parapetted bay with a tripartite window with brick mullions, ground-floor tripartite windows to the right, to the first floor over the bay, and the left-hand side of the left-and return. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the RA School opened in 1859. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: RA Barracks and Old Ranges: 1861-: CTR 362-364; Glennie D: Gunners Town: History of Shoeburyness: Civic Publications: 1948-).

Listing NGR: TQ9368484653