Timber Seasoning Store, North
TIMBER SEASONING STORE, NORTH, EAST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378617
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Timber Seasoning Store, North
- Statutory Address:
- TIMBER SEASONING STORE, NORTH, EAST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378617
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Timber Seasoning Store, North
- Statutory Address 1:
- TIMBER SEASONING STORE, NORTH, EAST ROAD
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.
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:
- TIMBER SEASONING STORE, NORTH, EAST 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 76116 69363
Details
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM EAST ROAD
(East side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/57
Timber seasoning store, North
GV II*
Timber seasoning store. Designed 1771. Weather-boarded timber-frame on brick plinth with corrugated asbestos roof. Rectangular plan 45 feet long.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 16-gable roof. Regular range has double doors in the gables, louvred above, and louvred sides with 5 metal-framed windows.
INTERIOR: 3 bays deep with bracketed posts, with racks for stacking sawn timber, and timber trusses.
HISTORY: seasoning sheds were introduced by order of the Earl of Sandwich because of the problem of using green timber in the Navy's ships, which were incurring massive expenditure on maintenance. They were designed by the Navy Board, and are a notable example of an early modular design, built in large numbers in all the naval yards. Obsolete by 1860, the two at Chatham are the last to survive (see Timber seasoning store, South (qv)). (Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 155 ; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 127-129).
Listing NGR: TQ7611569363
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476570
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J, Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850, (1982), 155
Coad, J, Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850, (1982), 127-129
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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