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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1771 to 1771

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1771 AD to 1771 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM EAST ROAD
(East side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/58
Timber seasoning store, South
GV II*
Timber seasoning store. Designed 1771. Weatherboarded timber frame on brick plinth with corrugated asbestos roof. Rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 9-gable roof. Regular range has double doors in the gables, louvred above, and slatted sides with 5 metal-framed windows.
INTERIOR: 3 bays wide with bracketed posts, with racks for stacking sawn timber, and timber trusses.
HISTORY: introduced on the orders of the Earl of Sandwich because of the problem of using green timber in the Navy's ships, which was incurring massive expenditure on maintenance. The Navy Board produced a notably early example of a modular design, many of which were built at the Navy's yards. Most were obsolete by 1860, and the two at Chatham are the last to survive, (see Timber seasoning store, North (qv)).
(Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 155 ; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 127 -129).
Listing NGR: TQ7608069313

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

Coad, J., 1982, Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850 (Article in serial). SWX7760.

Coad, J., 1982, Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850 (Article in serial). SWX7760.

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