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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1866

Summary from record TQ 76 NE 133 :

Stable block, probably built c.1730

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1866 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM THE TERRACE
(South East side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/82
The Stables
GV II
Stables. Early-mid C18. English bond brick and slate roof. Single-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 10-window range. Coped gables with kneelers to the ends of a series of 2-windowstables with segmental-arched openings, (all boarded at time of Review, March 1994), each with left-hand doorways, and smaller first-floor hay loft openings above. INTERIOR: altered but retains original roof structure (not seen).
HISTORY: adjoins the garden walls associated with the Officers' Terrace (qv), for which it provided stabling. Part of a complete naval dockyard.
Listing NGR: TQ7605169195

Description from record TQ 76 NE 133 :
(TQ 7604 6919) SAM No. 215 [stables adjacent to terrace: scheduled]. (1) Almost certainly contemporary to the adjacent Terrace - c.1730. red brick, of two storeys and ten bays in length. It is built into the Dockyard wall on its S. side. (2)

<1> English Heritage 1:1250 SAM location maplet (OS Card Reference). SKE41612.

<2> English Heritage SAM record descriptive text (J Coad) (OS Card Reference). SKE41627.

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