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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1868 to 1920

Summary from record TQ 97 NW 1025:

Building 86, Sheerness Dockyard. Iron-framed with yellow-brick of three ranges, north, south and east.

Monument Types

• METAL FRAMED BUILDING (Constructed c.1805's, Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD to 2050 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1868 AD to 1920 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 9075 SE QUEENBOROUGH IN SHEPPEY JETTY ROAD
933/5/10002 Sheerness Dockyard
Building Number 86
25.4.94
GV II
Dockyard building, use unknown, disused. Late C19, after 1889; NE block added after the two earlier ones c1900. Iron frame with brick infill to lower walls, hipped corrugated iron roof to N block and gabled corrugated iron roof to NE block; gabled slate roof to S block. PLAN: 3 sections, a rectangular plan S block with square plan block to N and large external chimney to N of later NE block. EXTERIOR:
.single-storey 6-bay S block with upper timber small-paned windows above brick-filled panels, continued round to S gable, which has tall doorway to centre. Similar double tier of fenestration to taller 5- bay N block, also continued round to N end; lantern surmounts hipped roof. 2-storey; 5-bay NE block, with a steel frame and brick panels, roofed parallel to N block and with upper floor clad in corrugated iron above strips of original glazing. INTERIOR: S block has steel or cast-iron H-section columns and wrought-iron trusses, with curved compression members to roof. N block has H-section columns with an iron roof with queen and princess rods and angled struts, and a collar supporting the louvre. NE block has timber roof. HISTORY: probably built for ship repairing and sited to the E of Sir John Rennie's 1820s dry docks (qv); part of a group with them and the Boat store and Building 84 (qqv). The N block was built on the site of supplying kilns, themselves built between 1847 and 1862. A later dockyard building within Rennie's planned layout, with group value with the other listed structures.
Sources: Sheerness the Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town: 1995; NMR BI NO 92379.
Listing NGR: TQ9095675374 (3)

Description from record TQ 97 NW 1025:
Now store, c1850s extended to north 1860s. Iron framed, with lower brick infill to walls. Hipped corrugate iron roof to north block, gabled corrugated iron roof to north-east block. Gabled slate roof to south. Rectangular plan to south, later square plan block to north. 6-bays in south block, 5 in taller north block and north-east block.(1)

Building 86 built late 19th century after 1889. Parts of the structure may be reused from earlier shipwrights workshed and offices demolished for the extension of the dry docks. The building is contructed from metal stanchions with brick infill and is of three ranges. It is unclear whether or not these ranges are contemporary but it seems possible that the north and south ranges are contemporary whilst the east range was added around 1900.(2)

1858, Sheerness Dockyard 1858 labelled plan (Map). SKE18272.

<1> Department of the Environment, KCC Greenback Index (Index). SWX9400.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town, NMR BI 9379 (Unpublished document). SWX6974.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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