HEADQUARTERS ROYAL SCHOOL FOR MILITARY ENGINEERS AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS

HEADQUARTERS ROYAL SCHOOL FOR MILITARY ENGINEERS AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375613
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: HEADQUARTERS ROYAL SCHOOL FOR MILITARY ENGINEERS AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: HEADQUARTERS ROYAL SCHOOL FOR MILITARY ENGINEERS AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375613
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: HEADQUARTERS ROYAL SCHOOL FOR MILITARY ENGINEERS AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: HEADQUARTERS ROYAL SCHOOL FOR MILITARY ENGINEERS 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:: HEADQUARTERS ROYAL SCHOOL FOR MILITARY ENGINEERS 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 76476 69021

Details

TQ 7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY POAD (east side), Brompton

3/29 HQ R.S.M.E. & attached basement area railings, Brompton Barracks

GV II

Institute, now offices. 1872-4, by Sir Frederick Ommanney. Yellow brick with Doulton terracotta and Portland stone dressings, ashlar axial stacks and slate roof Italianate style. Lateral H-plan with axial corridors. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and basement; 2:7:5:7:2-bay range. A symmetrical front with plinth and modillion eaves cornice, end and central sections set forward with ground-floor banded rustication to a moulded plat band, first-floor with clasping rusticated pilaster strips to a frieze with enriched metopes and consoles to a modillion cornice and balustrade with panelled dies; round-arched ground-floor windows with moulded heads linked by an impost band, and architraves and cill blocks to segmental-arched first-floor openings. Central section has full-width steps up to a 3-bay centre with 3 doorways with keyed architraves and double half-glazed doors, the first-floor recessed behind an open loggia of Corinthian columns, paired to the middle with cast-iron railings of diagonal bars to a central round. Keyed architraves to plate-glass sashes. Rear has similar articulation in 5 sections, with a raised roof to the central block between the parallel front and rear ranges. INTERIOR,: large entrance hall divided by distyle in antis paired Ionic columns with rear round-arched recessed arcade, impost band and dental cornice; an axial corridor leads to open dogleg stair each side with ornate cast-iron balusters and a moulded rail. Central sunken library remodelled mid C20. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron basement area railings extend from the central steps to the outer comes. HISTOPY: Built as the home of the School for Military Engineers, following the Commission on Military Education in 1869. The central lecture room was flanked by specialist teaching sections. Placed on the symmetrical axis of the War memorials and the quadrangle of the Mess blocks to the W (Central Ave) qqv). Included for historic interest and as part of the Brompton barracks, and for its architectural interest displaying an early use of revived terracotta. (Papers of the Royal Engineers: Marsh Major: Description of the PE Institute, Chatham: Chatham: 1874-: 73). -----------------------------------

Listing NGR: TQ7635168979

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Legacy System number:: 469577
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Marsh, Major , 'Papers of the Royal Engineers' in Description of the Royal Engineers Institute Chatham, (1874), 73

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.