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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1844 to 1844

Summary from record TQ 76 NE 107:

A schedules boat store at Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard was built in 1844. It is one of the best surviving examples of its kind and comprises 28 double storey bays and a weather-boarded exterior.

Monument Types

• BOAT STORE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1844 AD to 2007 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1844 AD to 1844 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM NORTH POND SIDE ROAD
(North side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/81
Lower Boat Store
GV II*
Workshop and boat store. 1844. Weather-boarded timber frame with corrugated-iron roof. PLAN: rectangular open plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 28-window range. Overhanging eaves; varied fenestration, most 6/6-pane sashes, with taller first-floor windows with metal glazing bars; E end has 3 large first-floor windows. E gable has ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, first-floor 20-paned windows and large double windows to the top, with metal frames; similar W gable. N elevation has mostly paired ground-floor sashes and wide double sliding doors, 9-pane windows under the eaves, 3 larger E windows.
INTERIOR: large posts with diagonal braces on knees supporting loft floor above, 3 bays deep, with king and queen posts and clasped purlins.
HISTORY: replaced an earlier store. The best surviving example of a type of workshop for timber working and stores once common in the naval yards and now, with the pair of boat stores at Portsmouth, rare.
Part of a fine group of naval buildings making up a complete Georgian dockyard.
(Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 155 ; Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 60; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 145).
Listing NGR: TQ7624869620

Description from record TQ 76 NE 107:
(TQ 7623 6964) SAM No. 229 [Boat store: scheduled]. (1) Boat store built 1844. The best surviving example. Long double storey 28 bay builsing. Weather-boarded exterior (2) site photographs (3-8).

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

CgMs Consulting, 2006, Archaeological Desk Based Study and Impact Assessment - Chatham Interface Land, Chatham Dockyard, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE15833.

CgMs Consulting, 2006, Preliminary historic building assessment Chatham Interface Land (Unpublished document). SKE15834.

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

<2> Jonathan G Coad, 1989, The royal dockyards 1690-1850: architecture and engineering works of the sailing navy. No.1, Page Nos. 145, Plate Nos. 125 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6362.

<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9423.

<4> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9885.

<5> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9887.

<6> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9889.

<7> 1945, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9890.

<8> 1994, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11124.

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