West Powder Magazine, Shoebury Garrison is a Grade II listed building in the Southend-on-Sea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. Powder magazine.
West Powder Magazine, Shoebury Garrison
- WRENN ID
- twisted-rubblework-tallow
- 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
- Powder magazine
- Address
- West Powder Magazine, Shoebury Garrison, Beach Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 936 844
- Coordinates
- 51.52556, 0.79086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Powder Magazine at Shoebury Garrison is a powder magazine built between 1852 and 1853. It is constructed of stock brick with stone dressings and features a bitumen roof. The building has a square plan and includes a lean-to porch on the east side that contains a 20th-century iron door facing north. The exterior shows the positions of three cast-iron ventilator grills, some of which have wooden shutters, indicating a cavity wall and solid vault. There is a blocked opening in the west wall, and the roof is low-pitched and hipped. The interior has not been inspected. This magazine is one of only two surviving at the establishment and is notable as one of the first brick buildings constructed there, serving as an important functional element within the British School of Gunnery.
Local climate
West Powder Magazine, Shoebury Garrison 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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