Carriage / Wagon Shed, Horseshoe Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Southend-on-Sea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. Vehicle shed. 8 related planning applications.

Carriage / Wagon Shed, Horseshoe Barracks

WRENN ID
tangled-banister-coral
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
Vehicle shed
Address
Carriage / Wagon Shed, Horseshoe Barracks, Warrior Square
OS grid reference
TQ 936 843
Coordinates
51.52514, 0.78964
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Carriage/Wagon Shed at Horseshoe Barracks in Southend on Sea is a vehicle shed built around the 1860s. Originally part of the British School of Gunnery, it now serves as workshops and stores. The structure features a cast-iron frame with wrought-iron trusses and a corrugated iron roof, along with mid-20th century rendered infill. The iron frame consists of I-section beams bolted together, with cast brackets supporting the gutter. The curved ends have sunken panels on round posts, which rest on sandstone plinths at the southern end where the ground slopes down. Inside, the shed has wrought-iron trusses with round ties and angle iron struts. The School of the Royal Artillery opened in 1859, and this building is noted as an example of a prefabricated store that was part of a complete mid-19th century barracks.

Local climate

Carriage / Wagon Shed, 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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