20, PROSPECT ROW
20, PROSPECT ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259632
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 20, PROSPECT ROW
- Statutory Address:
- 20, PROSPECT ROW
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/05072/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259632
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 20, PROSPECT ROW
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, PROSPECT ROW
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.
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:
- 20, PROSPECT ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 76117 68692
Details
GILLINGHAM
TQ7668NW PROSPECT ROW, Brompton 686-1/5/53 (East side) 24/02/50 No.20 (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive))
GV II
House. Dated 1756. Flemish bond brick, brick right-hand gable stack and interlocking tile roof. STYLE: Mid Georgian. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 4-window range. A parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and left of centre doorway with attached fluted Doric columns, entablature, and pediment inscribed 1756/R&P, to a door with 2 raised panels and 4 glazed ones. Rubbed brick segmental-arched heads to plate-glass sashes, with 6/6-pane second-floor sashes, and blind windows over the entrance. INTERIOR: contains an entrance stair hall with wainscotting, a central lateral open dogleg stair with column on vase balusters and fluted newels, cornice and panelled shutters. HISTORY: matching windows and continuous brickwork with No.19 (qv), and probably built at the same time; the parapet may be altered. Prospect Row was begun around 1705 and completed by 1756. Part of a varied terrace of early-mid Georgian houses. (MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987-: 66).
Listing NGR: TQ7612068693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462704
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
MacDougall, P, The Chatham Dockyard Story, (1987), 66
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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