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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 97 NW 1075 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | BOUNDARY WALLS EXTENDES FROM MAIN GATE ALONG NORTH AND NORTH EAST SIDE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1824 to 1831. Boundary wall, early C19.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 591e 1753 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ51NE |
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| Parish: | SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BOUNDARY WALL (Post Medieval to Modern - 1824 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1244508: BOUNDARY WALLS EXTENDES FROM MAIN GATE ALONG NORTH AND NORTH EAST SIDE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 9075 SE GARRISON ROAD
Sheerness Dockyard
933/5/10008
Boundary wall, extends from
15.03.1977 Main Gate along N & NE side
GV II
Dockyard boundary wall. c1824-31, by Sir John Rennie, engineer. Yellow stock brick with granite plinth and coping. Tall wall with a band of granite ashlar, above which shallow buttresses divide the wall into square panels. Extends approximately 510 metres NW from the Main Gate (qv), and meets the Boat Basin (qv). Interrupted by Jetty Road entrance. HISTORY: built by Rennie to enclose his complete rebuilding of the Sheerness yard in the 18205. Part of a group with the boundary wall to the S (qv). (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 182; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41 ).
Listing NGR: TQ9093875425 (1)
Description from record TQ 97 NW 16:
Boundary wall to former Royal Naval Dockyard. Early C19. A yellow brick wall about 12ft high with granite coping and brick buttresses at intervals. For summary of Sheerness defences see (2) and site photographs (3-13).
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town (Unpublished document). SWX6974.
<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9556.
<4> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9649.
<5> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9810.
<6> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9993.
<7> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9995.
<8> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9997.
<9> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9999.
<10> 1998, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10227.
<11> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10441.
<12> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10442.
<13> DOE(HHR)Borough of Swale, Kent (30.6.78) 34. (OS Card Reference). SKE41244.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England. 1995. Sheerness: The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town. |
| <3> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4023. print. |
| <4> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4461. print. |
| <5> | Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4012. print. |
| <6> | Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 19. print. |
| <7> | Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 22. print. |
| <8> | Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 26. print. |
| <9> | Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 28. print. |
| <10> | Photograph (Print): 1998. Photograph. 3338. print. |
| <11> | Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 43. print. |
| <12> | Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 45. print. |
| <13> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR)Borough of Swale, Kent (30.6.78) 34.. |
