Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke

Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Cumberland Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267780
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke
Statutory Address:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Cumberland Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267780
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Dec-1996
List Entry Name:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke
Statutory Address 1:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Cumberland Road
Statutory Address 2:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Dock Road
Statutory Address 3:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Pembroke 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Cumberland Road
Statutory Address:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Dock Road
Statutory Address:: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Pembroke Road

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 76429 69557

Details

TQ7669NW 686-1/1/98

GILLINGHAM Pembroke DOCK ROAD (east side) Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke

(Formerly Listed as: DOCK ROAD Main gate to HMS Pembroke Dock Road & walls Pembroke Rd, Dock Rd, Cumberland Rd)

(Formerly Listed as: CUMBERLAND ROAD (North side) Main gate to HMS Pembroke in Dock Rd, walls Pembroke Rd, Dock Rd, Cumberland Rd)

(Formerly Listed as: PEMBROKE ROAD (West side) Main gate to HMS Pembroke Dock Rd, walls... Pembroke Rd, Dock Rd, Cumberland Rd)

06/06/84 GV II Includes: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke PEMBROKE ROAD. Includes: Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke CUMBERLAND ROAD.

Gates, walls and lodge. c1902, by Sir Henry Pilkington, central pier removed c1990. Brick with stone dressings and slate roof.

Main gate has four diagonally-set piers to outer wickets and wide gateway, single-room lodge, and walls to right extend back approximately 40 metres. Piers have impost bands, sunken round-arched panels with cornices, attached square piers to a domed cap; outer round-arched wickets have split keystones and parapet over; wrought-iron gates with wreathed panels, four wrought-iron former main gates with dog rails and panels, all hung from piers, former central pier removed, and a late C20 steel overthrow across.

Lodge has clasping buttresses to a parapet, gabled ends, and single wide round-arched windows with mullions and glazing bars. Lateral stack. Railings have diagonal square piers with coved coping and railings with curved finials. Walls extend approximately 75 metres to north of main gate on Pembroke Road and 300 metres to south and south east on Dock Road and Cumberland Road: coved stone coping and tall buttress piers.

HISTORY: part of a carefully planned early C20 naval barracks, with the former Captain's House, Mess block, barracks and ancillary buildings (qqv).

Listing NGR: TQ7642569575

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Legacy System number:: 462559
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.