Boundary Wall Extends From Main Gate Round South and East Sides of Former Dockyard
BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDS FROM MAIN GATE ROUND SOUTH AND EAST SIDES OF FORMER DOCKYARD, GARRISON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259030
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall Extends From Main Gate Round South and East Sides of Former Dockyard
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDS FROM MAIN GATE ROUND SOUTH AND EAST SIDES OF FORMER DOCKYARD, GARRISON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259030
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall Extends From Main Gate Round South and East Sides of Former Dockyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDS FROM MAIN GATE ROUND SOUTH AND EAST SIDES OF FORMER DOCKYARD, GARRISON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDS FROM MAIN GATE ROUND SOUTH AND EAST SIDES OF FORMER DOCKYARD, HIGH STREET
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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.
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:
- BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDS FROM MAIN GATE ROUND SOUTH AND EAST SIDES OF FORMER DOCKYARD, GARRISON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDS FROM MAIN GATE ROUND SOUTH AND EAST SIDES OF FORMER DOCKYARD, HIGH STREET
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:
- TQ9134575068
Details
TQ 9175 SW
933/2/116
15.03.1977
GARRISON ROAD
Sheerness Dockyard
Boundary wall extends from Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard
GV
II
Includes: Boundary wall, extends from Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard, HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS DOCKYARD
Dockyard boundary wall. 1824-31, by Sir John Rennie. 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 500 metres SE from Nos 1 and 2 Main Gate to the N of the former Dockyard Church (qqv), from where a section ramps down to extend to meet the retaining wall in front of the Church. The main wall runs E of the Dockyard House garden (qv), where it contains a segmental- arched doorway leading from Church Road for officers going to church. The wall along the S side of the yard extends from the Wend of Naval Terrace (qv), and extends W for approx. 300m before turning S for approx. 170m; in the corner ramps lead up to an entrance.
This section of wall facing High Street has square lamps on cast-iron brackets attached at intervals. HISTORY: built by Rennie to enclose his complete rebuilding of the Sheerness yard in the 1820s. Of historic interest, and part of a good group with the officers' accommodation, church and offices (qqv) in the little-altered SE corner of the yard. (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).
TQ 9175 SW
933/2/116
HIGH STREET
Sheerness Dockyard
Boundary wall, extends from Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard
GV
II
See under: Boundary wall extends from Main gate round S and E sides
of former Dockyard, GARRISON ROAD, SHEERNESS DOCKYARD
Listing NGR: TQ9134575068
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446125
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 182
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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