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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1829 to 1833. A terrace of two-storey, brick houses by George Ledwell Taylor for officers at Sheerness Dockyard. 1830.

Monument Types

• TERRACE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1829 AD to 2050 AD)
• HOUSE (built circa 1830, Post Medieval to Modern - 1830 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TQ 97 NW 11:
(TQ 91357510 - sited from OS 1:1250 1972) nos 1 to 15 Regency Close. Nos 1 to 15 (consec) (Regency Close) 1830. Grade II* (See list for further details) (1). Site photographs (2-8).

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 9175 SW REGENCY CLOSE
Sheerness Dockyard
933/2/90
Nos 1-15 ( Consecutive ) and
attached railings
15.3.77
GV II*
Terrace of officers' houses, now 15 houses and offices. c1829-33, by George ledwell Taylor, architect to the Navy Board, and John Rennie Snr, engineer. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick heads and rendered dressings, party wall and end gable ridge brick ridge stacks, and slate mansard roof. Late Georgian style. PLAN: double-depth plan, possibly originally back-to-back houses divided into two at the rear. EXTERIOR: each 2 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. The terrace has a rendered plat band, cornice and blocking course; each house has a central timber porch with paired pilasters, cornice and blocking course, with architraves to the doorway with double 6-panel door with raised panels, and to 9-pane windows to the sides. Flat-headed windows have 6/6- pane sashes and rendered reveals, and flat-headed attic dormers have 6/6-pane sashes. Similar rear with early C20 lavatories projecting over central entrances on iron posts; the windows of each section spaced 3:2 with the door to the left. INTERIOR: the front houses have a central hall, enriched cornices, panelled shutters and doors, the rear, with similar fittings, has a curved dogleg stair from the entrance hall with stick balusters, fluted newel and curtail, and an inner back door with stained glass margin panes. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron basement area spear-headed railings with urn finials. HISTORY: housed Yard Officers, a matching design to the adjoining Commissioner's House (qv) and referred to as "Houses for Inferior Officers" (Coad). It is accordingly less grand than Nos 1-8 Naval Terrace (qv). There was proportionately more accommodation at Sheerness than the other dockyards because of the remoteness of the site. The original internal planning is unclear, but each house may always have been divided into three. Unlike the other Royal dockyards, Sheerness was all rebuilt at the same time. Forms part of the little-altered SE corner of Rennie's model layout, containing the entrance, chapel and officers' accommodation, and part of a unique planned early (19 dockyard. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 54; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41; Sheerness, The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town: 1995: 1). Listing NGR: TQ9134375114 (9)

Historic England archive material (10)

<1> DOE (HHR) Dist of Swale, Kent June 1978 27 (OS Card Reference). SKE40357.

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9556.

<3> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9810.

<4> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9993.

<5> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9997.

<6> 1998, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10227.

<7> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10441.

<8> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10442.

<9> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<10> Historic England, Archive material associated with Sheerness Dockyard (Archive). SKE54389.

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