SOUTH TOWER HOUSE

SOUTH TOWER HOUSE, COLLEGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378601
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: SOUTH TOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SOUTH TOWER HOUSE, COLLEGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378601
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: SOUTH TOWER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH TOWER HOUSE, COLLEGE 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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Location

Statutory Address:: SOUTH TOWER HOUSE, COLLEGE 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 75998 69044

Details

TQ 76 NE CHATHAM COLLEGE ROAD (West side) Chatham Dockyard 762-1/8/45 South Tower House

GV II*

House. c1718, altered late C19. English bond brick, with late C19 brick lateral stack and slate pyramidal hipped roof. PLAN: single-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storey; 2-window range. Battered ground-floor buttresses, plat band, and second-floor Lombard frieze over a band of shallow rectangular recesses; inserted late C19 segmental-arches to 6/6-pane sashes; 2 blocked first-floor oculi to the S and N sides, with a wide, blocked round-arched ground-floor gateway to the W. Single-storey late C19 red brick gabled extension attached to the S with a 2/2-pane sash. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: part of the E perimeter wall including the North Tower House and Gatehouse (qqv), built during the early C18 expansion of the Dockyard. The wall originally surrounded the Yard, with towers at the corners with pairs of oculi to each external face and a crenellated parapet. Demonstrates the need for protection of the Yard before the construction of the mid C18 Chatham Lines. (Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 141 ; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 83; 1814: ADM: 140/19).

Listing NGR: TQ7599769042

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Legacy System number:: 476554
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Coad, J , Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850, (1982), 141
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 83

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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.