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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 97 NW 1083
Type of record:Building
Name:3 AND 4 WEST STREET

Summary

Former site of a Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1832.


Grid Reference:TQ 9109 7500
Map Sheet:TQ97NW
Parish:SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (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:
WEST STREET 1. 5282 (East Side) Blue Town, Sheerness Nos 3 and 4 TQ 9175 SW 2/122
II GV 2. Early C19 facade. 3 storeys rendered. Hipped tiled roof in 2 hips. 1 window to No 3. 2 windows and 1 blank to No 4. Ground floor bar front window and door. The rear elevation has a partly slate roof and is weatherboarded.
Listing NGR: TQ9109075006 (1)

In 1995 a summary on the Sheerness docklands was carried out by the RCHME. Number 3 and number 4 Wset street were both originally three-storey timber-framed buildings. Number 4 was formerly the Ship Public House and although a building is present on Dodd's map of Blue Town in 1800 it is not know if number 4 was a pub at this time. The OS map shows that the building is the Ship by 1864 and that at least the ground floors of number 3 are also part of the pub.The Ship had one etched glass window depicting a ship and labelled 'saloon'. (2)

At sometime during the 1990s, after 1995, several buildings along West Street were demolished, including number 4 and part of number 3. The original bottom story of number 3 survives but has been added too. At the time of the survey number 3 was unused and boarded up.


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document). SWX6974.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town.