Blocks E-H, Shoebury Garrison

TQ 98 SW SOUTHEND ON SEA HOSPITAL ROAD (north west side), Shoebury Garrison

5/10029 Blocks E-H, Shoebury Garrison 28.4.86

GV II

Terrace of 6 NCO houses, 1 added to left, and now 4. 1861, drawings signed by Cpt Sykes, RE, Inspector of Works. Yellow stock brick with brick chamfered square ridge stacks and square end gable stack, and slate roof. Single-depth plan with rear service range. EXTERIOR: each a single storey; 5-bay range, with 6-window left-hand section. Each a symmetrical front with rubbed brick heads to mid C20 doors and overlights, and horned 4/4-pane sashes. Left-hand addition has doorway in the left-hand end gable. Rear gabled service ranges with attic hatches and 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: altered mid C20, contains flush 4-panel doors. HISTORY: sergeant's accommodation at the first British School of Gunnery, opened 1859. Included as part of a group with the hospital (qv), within a complete mid C19 barracks. (PSA Drawings Collection, NMR, Swindon: CTR 361; Glennie D: Gunners Town: History of Shoeburyness: Civic Publications: 1948-).

Listing NGR: TQ9392284762