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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1899

Summary from record TQ 76 NE 132 :

Large house, probably built c.1729

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM CHURCH LANE
(North side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/43
Former Captain of the
Dockyard's House and attached
front area railings
24.5.71
GV II*
House, now office. Early C19, second floor added later C19. Brick with stone dressings, brick lateral stacks and slate hipped roof. Mid Georgian style. PLAN: double-depth.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 5-window range. Symmetrical entrance front has rusticated quoins and plat bands to ground and first floors, and a modillion eaves cornice. An open porch has square columns to a plain entablature and cornice, round-arched windows each side, and steps up to a 6-panel door with narrow side lights and round-arched fanlight. Recessed 6/6-pane sashes, blank to the first-floor second from left; later second-floor windows have architraves and cill blocks.
INTERIOR: entrance hall leads to a central lateral dogleg stair with turned balusters, wreathed rail and curtail, cornices, panelled shutters, 6-panel doors and stone fire surrounds.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spike-headed iron railings on a stone-coped dwarf wall flanking the porch.
Despite the later C19 addition, this is a building of good architectural quality which forms an important element with the neighbouring Officers' terrace and the Pay Office (qqv), within this notably complete Georgian dockyard. (Source: MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987: 58).
Listing NGR: TQ7595569085

Description from record TQ 76 NE 132 :
(TQ 7596 6908) SAM No. 213 [Captain of the Dockyard's House: scheduled]. (1) The Captain of the Dockyards's House. C18. Probably built at the same time as the Terrace [See Associated Records] which it adjoins, namely 1729. 4 storeys and attic. Red brick. [Full architectural description]. (2)

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

<2> DOE (HHR) Borough of Chatham May 1971 (8) (OS Card Reference). SKE39909.

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