FORMER PAY OFFICE BUILDING NUMBER 104

FORMER PAY OFFICE BUILDING NUMBER 104, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258985
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: FORMER PAY OFFICE BUILDING NUMBER 104
Statutory Address:: FORMER PAY OFFICE BUILDING NUMBER 104, MAIN ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258985
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: FORMER PAY OFFICE BUILDING NUMBER 104
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER PAY OFFICE BUILDING NUMBER 104, MAIN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER PAY OFFICE BUILDING NUMBER 104, MAIN ROAD

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 91203 75234

Details

TQ 9175 SW MAIN ROAD (North side), Sheerness Dockyard 933/2/104 Former Pay Office, Building 18.01.1972 No.104

GV II

Pay office, now offices. 1828, probably by William Miller, Admiralty architect, and Sir John Rennie, engineer; altered 1892, repaired and extended after fire 1980s. Yellow stock brick with stone dressings, and slate hipped roof. PLAN: central axial hall with offices and pay room in the W bay and guard room in the 2 E bays, with 1987 single-room extension to the north. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys and basement; 5-bay front with 6-bay sides. Symmetrical front with plat band, cornice and blocking course, the three central bays set back, rubbed brick heads to round-arched windows all round, those in the front in matching recesses. Outer 2-light and inner 4-light transom windows with fanlights, central doorway with 2-leaf panelled doors, flat-headed first-floor 616-pane thin-bar sashes; formerly entrance to the left of the doorway. Matching side elevations, the E side with doorways at both ends. Rear formerly as the front, has 1987 2-storey extension, slightly lower but modelled on the front, with a 2 Tuscan columns to a flat canopy. INTERIOR not inspected, but reported to contain three cast-iron Tuscan columns along the axis of the hall, cantilevered stone open well stair to the right of the door (formerly another at the opposite end), NW strong room with an iron door, basement with fish-belly cast-iron joists across central passage; king post roof. HISTORY: built during the second phase of work in the Yard, after the dock walls and engineering works were complete. Has some similarities with the Pay Offices at Devonport and Portsmouth, both of which contain fire-proof elements (qqv). Unlike the other Royal dockyards, Sheerness was rebuilt all at the same time. The Pay Office is part of the complete north-east section of the Yard, part of a unique planned C19 dockyard. (Sources: Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41 ; Sheerness, The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town: 1995: NMR BI 93279).

Listing NGR: TQ9120375234

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Legacy System number:: 445988
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Rennie, J, The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours, (1851), 41

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.