Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke
Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Cumberland Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267780
- Date first listed:
- 06-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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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267780
- Date first listed:
- 06-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
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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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462559
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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