Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks

OFFICERS BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1375612
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:
Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks
Statutory Address:
OFFICERS BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1375612
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:
Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks
Statutory Address 1:
OFFICERS BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
OFFICERS BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT 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 76218 69125

Details

TQ 6769 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD
(West side), Brompton

3134 Officers'block & attached
front basement railings,
Brompton Barracks

GV II*

Formerly known as: Officers'range, New Royal Artillery Barrack, Chatham Lines PASLEY POAD.
Artillery, later Engineers' barracks, officers' block. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor of the Office of Works, and Lt.-Col P, D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. PLAN: axial plan of back-to-back barrack rooms with transverse stairs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 1:5:1:6:5:6:1:5:1-bay range. A symmetrical front has originally matching 14-bay ranges with cornice and parapet, connected by a central ashlar distyle in antis 3-bay section with giant Tuscan columns to an entablature and balustrade, and recessed rusticated wall with round-arched ground-floor openings, a central open archway and flanking windows, and flat-headed first-floor windows, to 6/6-pane sashes.


Listing NGR: TQ7622469144

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
469576
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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