Former Wheelwrights Shop
FORMER WHEELWRIGHTS SHOP, EAST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378637
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Wheelwrights Shop
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WHEELWRIGHTS SHOP, EAST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378637
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Wheelwrights Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WHEELWRIGHTS SHOP, EAST ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORMER WHEELWRIGHTS SHOP, MAIN 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:
- FORMER WHEELWRIGHTS SHOP, EAST ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WHEELWRIGHTS SHOP, MAIN 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 76064 69400
Details
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM MAIN ROAD
(East side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/80
Former Wheelwright's Shop
GV II*
Includes: Former Wheelwright's Shop, EAST ROAD CHATHAM DOCKYARD
Mast house, later wheelwright's shop, now museum and restaurant. Late C18-early C19. Timber-framed with weatherboarding and tiled roof. PLAN: 3 rectangular plan parallel ranges.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 3-gable range. Matching gables have double carriage doors and small-paned metal framed windows, the N end with 3 ground-floor windows to the left-hand end and wide attic windows over the doors, the S end with 3 ground-floor windows to the middle and tall attic windows. Rendered brick infill to west side.
INTERIOR: timber roof trusses with heavy former ships' knee braces and king posts.
HISTORY: mast houses were important parts of the sailing ship dockyard. The roofs are notable examples of the use of ship-wright's techniques in building construction in the Dockyard. After the end of sailing ships, used for various purposes, including wheelwright's shop.
Group value with the Mast House (qv), and part of a notably complete Georgian dockyard. (Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982 ; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 158-162).
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM EAST ROAD
(West side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/80
Former Wheelwright's Shop
GV II*
See under: Former Wheelwright's Shop, MAIN ROAD CHATHAM DOCKYARD
Listing NGR: TQ7606469398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476591
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 158-162
Coad, J, Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850, (1982)
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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