Description

PROOF AND EXPERIMENTAL 1. ESTABLISHMENT, SHOEBURY 5219 GARRISON Old Ranges: Former TQ 98 SW SP/724 Light Quick-Firing Battery II 2. Light Quick-Firing Battery, now disused, former casemates, 1870s, remodelled early 1890s as Light Quick-Firing Battery. Stock brick with iron frame, C20 rendering to upper part. 2 chambers set askew. Right part: massive piers with black brick quoins flanking iron frame of 3 bays. Wooden door frame (door missing) between 2 upright girders supporting wall plate. Iron-clad barrel-vaulted roof with mantle rail above blocked casemate. Part of plank floor survives. Left part: Truncated and re-fronted in yellow brick with four-course relieving arch above small wooden door frame. Buttresses at left corner have traces of high brick arches, now demolished. Three-bay barrel-vaulted roof with brick infill; C20 brick partition. Interesting late example of a casemate and unique because referred to as an'experimental casemate'in contemporary documents. A photograph (PIB/202) of c.1896-8 shows the arrangement of rifle muzzle loading guns on the pier.

Listing NGR: TQ9348584039

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)