NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS

NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-12, ORDNANCE TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268216
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-12, ORDNANCE TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268216
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-12, ORDNANCE TERRACE

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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:: NUMBERS 1-12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-12, ORDNANCE TERRACE

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District:: Medway (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 75454 67580

Details

CHATHAM

TQ7567NW ORDNANCE TERRACE 762-1/3/28 (South West side) 29/10/52 Nos.1-12 (Consecutive) and attached basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: ORDNANCE TERRACE, Chatham Town (South West side) Nos.1-10, 12 (Consecutive)) (Formerly Listed as: ORDNANCE TERRACE, Chatham Town (South East side) No.11 (Dickens House))

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Terrace of 12 houses. Early C19. Brick with slate-hung right-hand return, rendered timber-framed backs, brick party wall stacks and slate roof. STYLE: Late Georgian. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: each of 3 storeys and basement; 2-window range. A uniform terrace with ground-floor openings in rubbed brick round-arched recesses linked by channelled imposts, a thin cornice and parapet; No 1 set forward with flat-headed ground-floor windows, and with a sunken basement area. Doors with 6 raised panels and fanlights, the original fanlights remain in Nos 3 and 4. 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane second-floor sashes. Nos 9 and 12 have mid C19 canted bays with column mullions. INTERIOR: mostly altered; originally having a dogleg stair from the entrance with stick balusters and column newels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached iron and late C20 steel basement area railings. HISTORY: No.11 was the home of Charles Dickens and his family from 1817-1821, while his father was working in the Navy Yard. Notable for the late use of wood in the rear returns. Nos 1-10 (Cons) and No.12 Ordnance Terrace were listed on 23.10.69. (Muthesius S: The English Terraced House: London: 1990-: 64).

Listing NGR: TQ7546967573

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Legacy System number:: 462118
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Sources

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Muthesius, S, The English Terraced House, (1982), 64

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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.