South Block and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Brompton Barracks
SOUTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375615
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- South Block and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Brompton Barracks
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS, PASLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375615
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- South Block and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Brompton Barracks
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA 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.
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:
- SOUTH BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT 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 76275 69052
Details
TQ 7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD (West side), Brompton 3/36 South block and attached front basement area railings,Brompton Barracks
GV II*
Formerly known as: West Privates Range, New Royal Artillery Barracks, Chatham Lines PASLEY ROAD. Artillery, later Engineers'barracks. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor to the Office of Works, and Lt.-Colonel R D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. Late Georgian style. PLAN: axial plan of back-to-back barrack rooms with transverse stair corridors, with 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 colunms 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 6/6-pane sashes. Pavilions have an ashlar first-floor band, tripartite ground-floor windows in segmental-arched recesses, first-floor 6/6 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. INTERIOR: altered mid C20. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings extend along front basement areas between inner and end pavilions and to end returns. HISTORY: To the rear were stables for 200 horses. Part of a quadrangular group with the North and Officer's blocks on an axis with the War memorials and Institute (qqv). 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-: PPO, W078 2649).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469579
- 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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