1890 Artillery Stores, Beacon Hill Fort, Harwich.
Built in 1889-90, continued into World War Two. A rectangular store building in a concrete-lined cutting, approached down a long ramp, Metal hinges for a pair of gates survive towards the base of the ramp. A brick wall built across the base of the cutting forms the front, or north-west elevation of the store. The building measures 23ft 11in x 15ft 1in internally, and has a concrete floor and a flat concrete roof reinforced with cross-axial metal girders on York stone pads, and covered with a thick layer of asphalt.
The only doorway, 3ft 11in wide x 6ft 11in high, is situated towards the northern end of the front elevation, its wooden frame supported double doors, opening internally. The detail in both the door and in the two adjacent windows, each 2ft 5in wide x 3ft 1in high, is off good quality. York stone is used for the sills, chamfered lintels and the interior edges are finished in moulded brick. The windows opened externally and have vertical iron security bars.
The interior is whitewashed and painted and there is a solitary ceiling ventilator. Scars on all walls are from shelving. Brackets on the north-east wall were later re-used for fire buckets and there was a secondary pot-bellied stove between the windows. As originally fitted, there was a bench and shelf along the south-east wall, with brackets for side arms and tackle above, a bench with a vice in the western corner, and a rack in the centre of the room. Joist slots in the cutting wall opposite the main elevation once supported a secondary corrugated iron roof spanning the gap between cutting store, visible on an aerial photograph dated 1936.
1890 Artillery Stores, Beacon Hill Fort, Harwich.
Built in 1889-90, continued into World War Two. A rectangular store building in a concrete-lined cutting, approached down a long ramp, Metal hinges for a pair of gates survive towards the base of the ramp. A brick wall built across the base of the cutting forms the front, or north-west elevation of the store. The building measures 23ft 11in x 15ft 1in internally, and has a concrete floor and a flat concrete roof reinforced with cross-axial metal girders on York stone pads, and covered with a thick layer of asphalt.
The only doorway, 3ft 11in wide x 6ft 11in high, is situated towards the northern end of the front elevation, its wooden frame supported double doors, opening internally. The detail in both the door and in the two adjacent windows, each 2ft 5in wide x 3ft 1in high, is off good quality. York stone is used for the sills, chamfered lintels and the interior edges are finished in moulded brick. The windows opened externally and have vertical iron security bars.
The interior is whitewashed and painted and there is a solitary ceiling ventilator. Scars on all walls are from shelving. Brackets on the north-east wall were later re-used for fire buckets and there was a secondary pot-bellied stove between the windows. As originally fitted, there was a bench and shelf along the south-east wall, with brackets for side arms and tackle above, a bench with a vice in the western corner, and a rack in the centre of the room. Joist slots in the cutting wall opposite the main elevation once supported a secondary corrugated iron roof spanning the gap between cutting store, visible on an aerial photograph dated 1936.