Dockyard Cottage and Attached Garden Wall and Basemnet Railings
DOCKYARD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND BASEMNET RAILINGS, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273184
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Dockyard Cottage and Attached Garden Wall and Basemnet Railings
- Statutory Address:
- DOCKYARD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND BASEMNET RAILINGS, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273184
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Dockyard Cottage and Attached Garden Wall and Basemnet Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOCKYARD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND BASEMNET RAILINGS, MAIN ROAD
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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:
- DOCKYARD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND BASEMNET RAILINGS, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheerness
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 91338 75226
Details
TQ 9175 SW MAIN ROAD
Sheerness Dockyard
933/2/97
Dockyard Cottage and
15.03.1977 attached garden wall
and basement railings
GV II
Officer's house, now offices. c1826, probably by George Ledwell Taylor, architect for the Navy Board, and Sir John Rennie, engineer. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick heads and limestone dressings, 2 brick lateral stacks each end, and slate hipped roof. Late Georgian style. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range.
Symmetrical front with first-floor rendered plat band, eaves cornice and blocking course, steps across the basement area to a round-arched doorway in matching recess with a fanlight with round central pane and 6-panel door with raised panels, and flat-headed windows with 6/6-pane sashes; segmental-arched basement lights. The ends have a raised section between the stacks containing a narrow 4-light attic light. I NTERIOR contains a central hall with a segmental arch to a rear transverse dogleg stair with iron stick balusters and curtail with fluted newel, 6-panel doors, enriched cornices and marble fire surrounds with corner roundels. Ground-floor rooms connected by shallow arches. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick wall extends approx 40m to the former rear stables ( qv), to enclose the garden to the SW; cast-iron basement area and entrance step railings with urn finials. HISTORY: originally the Boatswain's house at Sheerness Naval Dockyard. Unlike the other royal dockyards, Sheerness was all built at the same time. Within the little-altered SE corner of Rennie's model layout, containing offices, the chapel and the officers' accommodation, part of a unique planned early C19 dockyard. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41 ; Sheerness, The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town: 1995: 1).
Listing NGR: TQ9133875226
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
RCHME, , Sheerness: The Dockyard Defences and Blue Town, (March 1995), 1
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989)
Rennie, J, The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours, (1851), 41
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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