Medway Ports Authority Offices (Dockyard House)
MEDWAY PORTS AUTHORITY OFFICES (DOCKYARD HOUSE)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1258883
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Medway Ports Authority Offices (Dockyard House)
- Statutory Address:
- MEDWAY PORTS AUTHORITY OFFICES (DOCKYARD HOUSE)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1258883
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Medway Ports Authority Offices (Dockyard House)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEDWAY PORTS AUTHORITY OFFICES (DOCKYARD HOUSE)
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MEDWAY PORTS AUTHORITY OFFICES (DOCKYARD HOUSE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheerness
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 91347 75179
Details
TQ 9175 SW MAIN ROAD
Sheerness Dockyard
933/2/94
Dockyard House and
attached front basement
15.3.77 area railings
GV II*
Commissioners' house, now offices. Mid 18205, by George ledwell Taylor, architect to the Navy Board, and Sir John Rennie, engineer. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick heads and rendered dressings, central ridge and 2 brick lateral stacks at each end, and slate hipped roof. Late Georgian style. PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement; 2:5:2-window range. Symmetrical front with a rendered plat band. cornice and a full attic storey with a parapet. Timber porch has paired pilasters, cornice and blocking course, with architraves to the doorway with double 6-panel door with raised panels. and 9-pane lights to the sides. Flat-headed windows with 6/6-pane sashes with a possibly original outer sash for double glazing; 3/3-pane attic sashes. Outer single-storey, 2-window sections have a thin cornice and parapet. 5-window ends have blind windows to the chimney stacks, N end has a central tripartite first-floor sash with segmental-arched head, S end has a later full-height brick extension one bay from the rear and has lost the front stack. Similar rear with mid C20 ground-floor casements. 3-window outer sections with an early C19 porch 3 bays from the N end with a cornice and round-arched door and windows. INTERIOR not inspected but reported to contain many original features including a good curved central stair with mahogany rail, panelled shutters and doors. and enriched cornices. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron basement area railings to front and rear with urn finials and diagonal bars. HISTORY: the house and office of the Commissioner of the Yard, and a matching design to the adjoining officers' terrace, Regency Close (qv). Unlike the other royal dockyards, Sheerness was all rebuilt at the same time. Within the little-altered SE corner of Rennie's model layout, containing the entrance chapel and officers' accommodation, and part of a unique planned early C19 dockyard. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 54. 58, 59; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851:41; Sheerness, The Dockyard. Defences and Blue Town: 1995:1).
Listing NGR: TQ9134775179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445792
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
RCHME, , Sheerness: The Dockyard Defences and Blue Town, (March 1995), 1
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 41
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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