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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 97 SW 1157 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | NEPTUNE TERRACE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1832
Summary from record TQ 97 SW 1026:
Nos 1 to 10 (Neptune Terrace) Marine Parade, Marine Town, Sheerness. Early C19.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 92592 74937 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ97SW |
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| Parish: | SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Unknown date)
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1832 AD)
- TERRACED HOUSE (Constructed early 19th century, Post Medieval to Modern - 1800 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
MARINE PARADE 1. 5282 (North Side) Marine Town, Sheerness Nos 1 to 10 (consec) (Neptune Terrace) TQ 97 SW 11/76
II GV 2. An early C19 terrace, 2 storeys, cement rendered. 3 pedimented projections, one centre, two ends. Central pediment has niche with Neptune standing upon the head of a sea monster. The side pediments have niches with cement shell and rock ornaments. 20 sashes in all. Stucco architraves and archivolts to entrance doors with enriched keystones which depict mermen with a cornucopia. Pilasters with capitals having mermaids riding sea horses. Slate roofs. Cast iron spear rails to areas. The rear elevation has a roof with a succession of hips.
Listing NGR: TQ9259274937
Description from record TQ 97 SW 1026:
Early C19 terrace, 2 storeys cement rendered. 3 pedimented projections with niches; central housing Neptune on head of sea monster. 20 sashes. Stucco architraves and archivolts to entrance doors with decorated keystones. Pilasters with decorated capitals. Slate roofs. (1-8)
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<1> Department of the Environment, KCC Greenback Index (Index). SWX9400.
<2> Ant J 4 1924 277 (OS Card Reference). SKE33181.
<3> Maidstone Museum 6" (Anon undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE46363.
<4> Kent Arch Soc 6" (Anon undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE45876.
<5> Rochester Naturalist 6 no 130 1924 41-42 plans and elevations opp p 42 (G E Dibley) (OS Card Reference). SKE49308.
<6> F1 ASP 12-NOV-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42075.
<7> BAR 51 1978 Part I 242-3 Part II fig 32 (S McGrail) (OS Card Reference). SKE37535.
<8> Field report for monument TQ 96 NW 12 - November, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4871.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <1> | Index: Department of the Environment. KCC Greenback Index. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Ant J 4 1924 277. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Maidstone Museum 6" (Anon undated). |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: Kent Arch Soc 6" (Anon undated). |
| <5> | OS Card Reference: Rochester Naturalist 6 no 130 1924 41-42 plans and elevations opp p 42 (G E Dibley). |
| <6> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 12-NOV-59. |
| <7> | OS Card Reference: BAR 51 1978 Part I 242-3 Part II fig 32 (S McGrail). |
| <8> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 96 NW 12 - November, 1959. |
