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FORMER ADMIRALS OFFICES AND FORECOURT WALLS AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS

FORMER ADMIRALS OFFICES AND FORECOURT WALLS AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, MAIN GATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1268199
Date first listed:: 23-May-1971
List Entry Name:: FORMER ADMIRALS OFFICES AND FORECOURT WALLS AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: FORMER ADMIRALS OFFICES AND FORECOURT WALLS AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, MAIN GATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1268199
Date first listed:: 23-May-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: FORMER ADMIRALS OFFICES AND FORECOURT WALLS AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER ADMIRALS OFFICES AND FORECOURT WALLS AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, MAIN GATE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER ADMIRALS OFFICES AND FORECOURT WALLS AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, MAIN GATE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Medway (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 75907 69144

Details

TQ 76 NE CHATHAM MAIN GATE ROAD (South side) Chatham Dockyard 762-1/8/72 Former Admiral's Offices and forecourt walls and attached iron railings 24.5.71

GV II*

Offices. 1809, by Edward Holl, architect for the Navy Board. Brick with stone dressings and 4 brick axial stacks and a slate roof. Late Georgian style. PLAN: double-depth with a central axial passage, rear wing and mid-late C19 N extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 6: 15-window range. A symmetrical range with left-hand section set back; plinth, plat band and moulded eaves cornice, with a central pedimented 5-window section set forward with a Royal cartouche in the pediment, and distinctive wide round ground-floor 3-light bays at each end with cornices. An ashlar porch has curved steps up each side to flat-headed doorways, panelled corners, cornice and blocking course, and a central round-arched window. Rubbed brick flat arches to 6/6-pane recessed sashes, with similar windows to the left-hand end. Right-hand return 6-window range with single-storey porch with half-glazed door and sunken panel above, with carved timber herms each side with skewed Ionic capitals and a bust and furled flags to the top. Left-hand extension with similar windows with a round-arched doorway with double doors and large fanlight. INTERIOR: large entrance hall divided by 2 Doric columns to antae, with round-arched doorways each side to axial passages between end doorways, giving on to front and rear offices, and a rear stone dogleg stair with cast-iron stick balusters, curtail and wreathed rail, lit by a lantern; 6-panel doors with panelled reveals and moulded cornices. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached low front forecourt walls and iron railings to the entrance steps. HISTORY: replaced a 1750 office, and to the same plan as the 1780$ South Office Block at Portsmouth (qv). An early specialist office building in a national context, indicative of the complexity of administration produced by the scale of the early C19 Yard, and forming part of a fine and remarkably complete assemblage of Georgian naval buildings. (Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 173 ; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 47; MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987: 166; The Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent & the Weald: London:1976:206)

Listing NGR: TQ7591369157

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 462100
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Coad, J , Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850, (1982), 173
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 173
MacDougall, P , The Chatham Dockyard Story, (1987), 166
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1976), 206

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.