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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 76 NE 1212 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | FORMER HATCHELLING HOUSE AND ENGINE ROOM |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1787 to 1791
Summary from record TQ 76 NE 122 :
Hatchelling house, commissioned 1787
Summary from record TQ 76 NE 136 :
A square red brick engine or boiler house with slate roof. Built in the second quarter of the 19th century and now scheduled as an ancient monument.
Grid Reference: | TQ 75825 69009 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ76NE |
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Parish: | ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HEMP MILL (HEMP MILL, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1787 AD to 1791 AD)
- BOILER HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1825 AD? to 2050 AD)
- ENGINE HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1825 AD? to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM ANCHOR WHARF
(East side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/32
Former Hatchelling House
and Engine Room
24.5.71
GV II*
Hatchelling house. 1787-1791. Brick with slate and tiled hipped roof.
PLAN: single depth hatchelling room with attached store to the rear, and left-hand warehouse. EXTERIOR: 2 storey 4-window range hatchelling room; 4-storey 6-window range store. Hatchelling room has a wide end with pilaster strips one bay in to a corbelled cornice, parapet and central pediment containing a louvred lunette. Round-arched doorway with radial fanlight and double doors set within a matching recess, with tall right-hand 16/20-pane sash, first-floor 8/8-pane sashes and an off-centre hoist door with iron pivot hoist to the right. Right-hand return has 4 first-floor windows with paired 6/6-pane sashes. To the left a 4-storey range projects forward with 2 windows to the N end and 9-windows E side. Regularly-spaced rubbed-brick flat arches to 8/8-pane casements. Store to rear is recessed above the ground floor, with flat-headed casements.
INTERIOR: large wooden stair flight, with timber posts supporting the floors. HISTORY: hatchelling was the first part of the rope-making process in which the hemp was combed preparatory to spinning in the spinning house of the ropery (qv).
Built as part of the late C18 rebuilding of the S end of Dockyard, with the new Ropery, Rigging Store and Yarn houses (qqv). Part of the best ropeyard in the country, and a fine assemblage of Georgian dockyard buildings.
(Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 163 ; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 211 ; MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987: 90; The Buildings of England: Newman j: West Kent and the Weald: London: 1976: 205).
Listing NGR: TQ7582869016
Description from record TQ 76 NE 122 :
(TQ 7583 6902) SAM No. 248 [Hatchelling House; scheduled]. (1) #2100 was set aside in 1787 for the provision of a new hatchelling house with cellar at Chatham. (2)
Description from record TQ 76 NE 136 :
(TQ 75836902) SAM No. 210 (Scheduled). (1) A square red brick building with grey headers and a slate roof. Built as an engine or boiler house in the second quarter of the 19th century. (2)
From Scheduled Ancient Monument record:
A tall narrow brick building of three storeys built onto the N end of the Double Ropehouse. Construction started in 1787 and was apparently completed by the end of 1788. Occupies site of N end of former Spinning House. Hatchelling was the process whereby the hemp fibres were straightened by pulling them across boards in which were set closely-spaced iron spikes.
English Heritage, Register of Scheduled Monuments (Scheduling record). SKE16191.
Coad, J., 1982, Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850 (Article in serial). SWX7760.
<1> English Heritage 1:1250 SAM location maplet (OS Card Reference). SKE41612.
<1> English Heritage SAM Location maplet (OS Card Reference). SKE41625.
<2> English Heritage SAM descriptive text (J Coad) (OS Card Reference). SKE41624.
<2> Jonathan G Coad, 1989, The royal dockyards 1690-1850: architecture and engineering works of the sailing navy. No.1 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6362.
<3> English Heritage, Register of Scheduled Monuments (Scheduling record). SKE16191.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | --- | Scheduling record: English Heritage. Register of Scheduled Monuments. |
--- | Article in serial: Coad, J.. 1982. Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850. 68, pages 133-88. |
<1> | OS Card Reference: English Heritage 1:1250 SAM location maplet. |
<1> | OS Card Reference: English Heritage SAM Location maplet. |
<2> | OS Card Reference: English Heritage SAM descriptive text (J Coad). |
<2> | Bibliographic reference: Jonathan G Coad. 1989. The royal dockyards 1690-1850: architecture and engineering works of the sailing navy. No.1. |
<3> | Scheduling record: English Heritage. Register of Scheduled Monuments. |
Related records
TQ 77 SE 220 | Part of: Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard (Monument) |