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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1899

Summary from record TQ 76 NE 112 :

MCD Joiners shop

Monument Types

• CARPENTERS WORKSHOP (CARPENTERS WORKSHOP, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1833 AD to 1899 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM EAST ROAD
(Northwest side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/54
Joiner's Shop
GV II*
joiner's shop. 1840-60, E side filled in mid-late C19. English bond brick with stone dressings and a slate, corrugated asbestos and iron hipped roof. PLAN: rectangular plan formerly around an open courtyard, with a W extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 13-window range. Symmetrical E front has 3-bay ends set forward, plat band and cornice and parapet, central C20 sliding doors, rubbed brick segmental-arches to 6/6-pane metal casements with doorways in the second and tenth bays from the left, and a long central first-floor metal window with thin iron mullions. 8-window sides with doorways on the S side one bay in; windows as the front.
A 2-aisle extension to the W with segmental-arched 8/8-pane windows, has gable ends, possibly rebuilt, of those to the $, the outer range with a central doorway with windows each side and a later large round-arched window over the door, the inner range with 3 windows; N gables with similar fenestration, W side has 9-window range including a doorway 3 from the right with a lunette to the left.
INTERIOR: Former courtyard defined by brick walls to three sides with segmental-arched windows, open on E side. Cast-iron posts with joists set in shoes cast onto fish-belly profile ground-floor beams; the inner, former courtyard area, has timber beams to inserted floor. The roof construction to the first floor is clearly of a later phase to the courtyard and east-facing workshop area, with stone flags to fireproof NE corner. Cast-iron H-section columns on first floor, with a slight batter, cast in Rochester, to a wrought-iron roof with cast-iron decorative compression members. The wide stone stair flight from the entrance supported on special cast iron beams, a pair of columns and a bridging beam with parabolic bottom flange. Long first-floor window has cast iron octagonal mullions on the inside.
HISTORY: This is a unique purpose-built workshop, the plan and constructional details of which are directly related to its function in preparing shipbuilding timber. Forms a central part of the complete naval dockyard.
Listing NGR: TQ7599269249

Description from record TQ 76 NE 112 :
(TQ 7598 6926) SAM No. 235 [MCD Joiners' Shop: scheduled]. (1) Probably dates from the early 1850s. a good example of an industrial building of this period. It has two storeys, is square in plan and is built of yellow brick. The interior is built around a well, now floored over. (2)

A watching brief of pits and trenches dug within the building suggested an earlier date of construction for the building but this has not been confirmed (3).

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

<2> English Heritage SAM Record Description (J Coad) (OS Card Reference). SKE41626.

<3> Alan Ward, 2009, An Archaeological Watching Brief at the Old Joinery, Historic Dockyard, Chatham (Unpublished document). SKE15830.

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