Former Nelson Barrack
Former Nelson Barrack, Central Avenue, Gillingham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267812
- Date first listed:
- 28-Sept-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Nelson Barrack
- Statutory Address:
- Former Nelson Barrack, Central Avenue, Gillingham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267812
- Date first listed:
- 28-Sept-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Nelson Barrack
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Nelson Barrack, Central Avenue, Gillingham
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:
- Former Nelson Barrack, Central Avenue, Gillingham
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 76701 69521
Details
TQ7669NE
686-1/2/92
GILLINGHAM
Pembroke
CENTRAL AVENUE (south side)
Former Nelson Barrack
(Formerly Listed as: CHATHAM CENTRAL AVENUE (South side), Chatham Maritime, 4 Barrack blocks, Genville, Anson, Nelson and Blake)
28/09/90
GV
II
Barracks, now offices and laboratories. c1902 by Sir Henry Pilkington. Red brick with Portland stone dressings, brick gable and ridge and lateral stacks and slate cross-gabled roof.
STYLE: Free Edwariam Baroque.
PLAN: single-depth axial.
EXTERIOR: three storeys with attics to end cross ranges; 25-bay range. Long symmetrical ranges have a plinth, banded rustication to a ground floor plat band, second floor impost band becoming corniced frieze on end gables, and a modillion eaves cornice, the eight bay intermediate ranges divided by shallow paired lateral tacks to the first and second floor with a central downpipe. Three bay end gables have clasping pilaster strips, with scrolled ends to raking coping, and thin lateral stacks flanking central windows to a tall gable stack with a central rib; deep, full-height central canted bay. Segmental-arched 6/6-pane sashes have large split keystones to ground and first floors, brick and stone voussoirs to the second; ground floor windows to the intermediate sections wider with side lights.
Return gables have an outer blind bay, with a central porch with blocked Tuscan columns to an entablature with NELSON in raised letters and a segmental pediment and a half-glazed double door, and a bay above with entablature and parapet, paired 4/4-pane sashes in a keyed architrave and 4/4-pane sashes to the sides; above is a round-arched 8/8-pane sash with architrave and brackets to a round-arched pediment set forward from the cornice over a cartouche with flanking fish.
Rear elevations plainer, with square latrine towers at each end with pyramidal roofs connected to the barrack by a ground floor arch and one-light range above. Good cast-iron dated hoppers and square downpipes. Roofs have banded ridge and lateral stacks, some truncated, with late C20 dormer louvres and air conditioning units.
INTERIOR: plain with axial corridors and stairs in ends and central projecting sections.
HISTORY: one of four matching barracks at the former HMS Pembroke, and part of a carefully planned group with the Officer's Mess, Captain's House, Motor Dept (qqv), and other ancillary buildings.
Listing NGR: TQ7670069540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462547
- 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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