Former Stables to Rear of Dockyard Cottage
FORMER STABLES TO REAR OF DOCKYARD COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258982
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stables to Rear of Dockyard Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER STABLES TO REAR OF DOCKYARD COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258982
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Former Stables to Rear of Dockyard Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER STABLES TO REAR OF DOCKYARD COTTAGE
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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:
- FORMER STABLES TO REAR OF DOCKYARD COTTAGE
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 91358 75221
Details
TQ 9175 SW MAIN ROAD
Sheerness Dockyard
933/2/98
Former Stables to rear
15.03.1977 of Dockyard Cottage
GV II
Alternatively known as: The Stables, SHEERNESS DOCKYARD
Officer's stables and carthouse, now offices. c1826, probably by George Ledwell Taylor, architect for the Navy Board, and Sir John Rennie, engineer, converted c1980. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick heads, and slate hipped roof. Single-depth plan of central carthouse and flanking stables.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7 -window range. Symmetrical front with a plat band, brick cornice and parapet, central section set forward with 2 wide, altered former cart entrances now with late C20boardedlnfil[, beneath a central hay loft door; former stable doors each side with 3-pane overlights and late C20 doors, outer 616-pane sashes, and 316-pane first- floor sashes. Faces across a cobbled and paved stable yard. INTERIOR largely remodelled late C20. HISTORY: housed horses and carriage of the yard officers. Unlike the other Royal dockyards, Sheerness was all built at the same time. Within the little-altered SE corner of Rennie's model layout, containing offices, the chapel and the officers' accommodation, and part of a unique planned early C19 dockyard. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41 ; Sheerness, The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town: 1995).
Listing NGR: TQ9135875221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445982
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
RCHME, , Sheerness: The Dockyard Defences and Blue Town, (March 1995)
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989)
Rennie, J, The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours, (1851), 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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