Former Captain's House, HMS Pembroke

Former Captain's House, HMS Pembroke, Central Avenue

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267805
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: Former Captain's House, HMS Pembroke
Statutory Address:: Former Captain's House, HMS Pembroke, Central Avenue

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1267805
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Dec-1996
List Entry Name:: Former Captain's House, HMS Pembroke
Statutory Address 1:: Former Captain's House, HMS Pembroke, Central Avenue

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 Captain's House, HMS Pembroke, Central Avenue

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 76545 69601

Details

TQ7669NE 686-1/2/93

GILLINGHAM Pembroke CENTRAL AVENUE (North side) Former Captain's House, HMS Pembroke

(Formerly Listed as:CENTRAL AVENUE, HMS Pembroke (North side) Captain's House at HMS Pembroke)

06/06/84 GV II House and office for the Captain of the barracks, now offices. Dated 1903, by Sir Henry Pilkington. Red brick and Portland stone dressings, three ridge stacks with sunken panels, and slate roof.

STYLE: Free Edwardian Baroque. PLAN: L-shaped double-depth.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and basement; three bay range. Set on rising ground, the right-hand entrance gable has impost bands to each floor and a cill band to the attic, with a coped gable with segmental pediment; the right-hand corner has an ashlar loggia with Ionic pilasters to a dentil cornice, open round arches to front and right-hand side, and an inner doorway and panelled door. Single-light ground floor and first floor windows with 4/4-pane sashes, and a three-light attic mullion window, and two cruciform panels either side of the first-floor window inscribed 1903 and ER.

The main elevation to the left, and the rear, have a full-height casement; main elevation has wide basement and ground floor three-light canted bays with cross windows to the ground floor, to a parapet; paired 6/6-pane sashes above, and large gabled eaves dormers with three-light mullion windows and a cornice over; the right-hand bay has a plain basement doorway, paired windows above and two narrow first-floor windows. Rear has a pedimented gable at the opposite end to that at the front, and a basement doorway. Right-hand rear wing, with a parapeted stair tower in the re-entrant with two 4/4-pane sashes in each side.

INTERIOR: a right-hand passage divided by pilasters to round arches, to a dogleg stair with square newels and balusters; plain stone fire surrounds.

HISTORY: part of a carefully planned early C20 barracks with the barracks church, mess blocks (Central Ave.), barracks (Pasley Rd), (qqv) and other ancillary buildings.

Listing NGR: TQ7654469602

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Legacy System number:: 462540
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.