Lecture Theatre, Brompton Barracks

LECTURE THEATRE, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375608
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:
Lecture Theatre, Brompton Barracks
Statutory Address:
LECTURE THEATRE, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375608
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:
Lecture Theatre, Brompton Barracks
Statutory Address 1:
LECTURE THEATRE, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LECTURE THEATRE, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY 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 76361 69018

Details

TQ 7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD (west side), Brompton 3/30 Lecture Theatre, Brompton Barracks

GV II

Also known as: Study Centre, Brompton Barracks PASLEY ROAD, Brompton. Lecture theatre. Early C19, extended early-mid C20. Brick with hipped slate roof Single-depth plan with rear central lecture hall. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 3:5:3-window range. Central 5-window range set forward to front and back with full-height round-arched recesses containing lunettes, with rubbed brick flat arches to 616-pane sashes to outer blocks. A full-width extension extends across the front with wide pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet, central doorway has an overlight and double doors, a round-arched doorway with fanlight to the left side of the right-hand range, and a left-hand mid C20 plainer range with a central double glazed door. INTERIOR,: has an entrance hall and a rear lecture theatre with right-hand proscenium arch, left-hand gallery on cast-iron posts, cornice, coved ceiling and moulded beams. HISTORY: an early example of buildings for education within a barracks. Group value as part of an axial arrangement with the Barracks buildings and Institute (qqv).

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
469572
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.

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