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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529718

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)