NORTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS

NORTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1375611
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: NORTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: NORTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1375611
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: NORTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NORTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 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 76317 69143

Details

TQ 7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD (west side), Brompton 3/33 North block and attached basement area railings, Brompton Barracks

GV II*

Formerly known as: Armoury range, New Royal Artillery Barrack, Chatham Lines PASLEY ROAD. Artillery, later Royal Engineers' barracks. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor to the Office of Works, and Lt.-Col R D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. PLAN: axial plan with central barrack chapel, transverse stair passages, back-to-back barrack rooms and end rear wings. EXTERIOR,: 2 storeys and basement; 1:14:5:14:1-bay range. A symmetrical front has matching 16-bay ranges with 3-storey end pavilions, connected by a central 3-bay ashlar entrance section with giant distyle in antis Tuscan columns to an entablature and balustrade; a rusticated wall behind has round-arched ground-floor doorway with radial fanlight and double doors and 6/6-pane sashes each side, and first-floor flat-headed 616-pane sashes. Pavilions have an ashlar first-floor band, tripartite ground-floor windows in segmental-arched recesses, first-floor 616-pane and second-floor 313-pane sashes; intervening sections have rectangular rusticated ashlar surrounds 4 bays from each end to round-arched doorways with radial fanlights and panelled doors. End 1:5:1-window return wings have end pavilions as the front, and round-arched outer and central doorways. Rear has a projecting central chapel 3 bays deep with a 5-bay gable with central 3-bay pediment, upper round-arched stained glass windows. INTERIOR,: separate houses have dogleg stairs with stick balusters and 6-pancl doors; chapel has aisles, with square panelled posts to a segmental-arched roof with round-arched aisle vaults, and half saucer dome over the S gallery with panelled posts and turned balusters, segmental arches to each first-floor bay behind, and a restored curved stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached iron railings extend along the front and end returns to the basement areas. HISTOPY: part of a fine quadrangular group with the South and Officer's blocks on an axis with the War memorials and institute (qqv). To the rear were stables for 200 horses. Shares a compositional system with Wyatt's other large Artillery barracks, at Woolwich which gives it a Palladian air of monumentality. One of the largest and most impressive examples of military architecture in the country. (General Plan: 1806-: PRO, W078 2649;

Listing NGR: TQ7631769143

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Legacy System number:: 469575
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.