A and B the Terrace, Horseshoe Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Southend-on-Sea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. Surgeon’s quarters. 13 related planning applications.
A and B the Terrace, Horseshoe Barracks
- WRENN ID
- tangled-soffit-yew
- 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
- Surgeon’s quarters
- Address
- A and B the Terrace, Horseshoe Barracks, Warrior Square, SS3 9UH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 935 846
- Coordinates
- 51.5279, 0.7889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a pair of surgeon's quarters (Block B) at the British School of Gunnery, with an instructor's quarter added. They were built between 1861 and 1862, with alterations around 1870. The building is constructed of yellow brick with flat brick arches, a brick ridge, gables, and slate roofing. It has a double-depth plan with rear service blocks. The exterior is two storeys and six bays. The houses have a plat band and coped gables on corbelled kneelers. The left-hand cross gable features a canted three-window bay with a parapet. The windows are segmental-arched with rubbed brick detailing, featuring 6/6-pane sashes in the middle of the ground floor and the bay, timber tripartite 4/4-pane ground-floor sashes, 2/2-pane first-floor sashes, and plate-glass central first-floor sashes. The returns have flat-arched porches to the rear with flat-headed doorways, overlights, and half-glazed doors. The rear elevation has projecting single-storey service blocks. The interior includes a central axial passage, a staircase with turned balusters and an uncut string, stone fireplaces with pilasters, and four-panel doors. The Royal Artillery School opened in 1859, and the building's architectural details reflect the rank of the occupant.
Local climate
A and B the Terrace, 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 — 8 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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