LOWER BOAT STORE

LOWER BOAT STORE, NORTH PONDSIDE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378639
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: LOWER BOAT STORE
Statutory Address:: LOWER BOAT STORE, NORTH PONDSIDE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1378639
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: LOWER BOAT STORE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER BOAT STORE, NORTH PONDSIDE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: LOWER BOAT STORE, NORTH PONDSIDE 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 76241 69635

Details

TQ 76 NE CHATHAM NORTH POND SIDE ROAD (North side) Chatham Dockyard 762-1/8/81 Lower Boat Store

GV II*

Workshop and boat store. 1844. Weather-boarded timber frame with corrugated-iron roof. PLAN: rectangular open plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 28-window range. Overhanging eaves; varied fenestration, most 6/6-pane sashes, with taller first-floor windows with metal glazing bars; E end has 3 large first-floor windows. E gable has ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, first-floor 20-paned windows and large double windows to the top, with metal frames; similar W gable. N elevation has mostly paired ground-floor sashes and wide double sliding doors, 9-pane windows under the eaves, 3 larger E windows. INTERIOR: large posts with diagonal braces on knees supporting loft floor above, 3 bays deep, with king and queen posts and clasped purlins. HISTORY: replaced an earlier store. The best surviving example of a type of workshop for timber working and stores once common in the naval yards and now, with the pair of boat stores at Portsmouth, rare. Part of a fine group of naval buildings making up a complete Georgian dockyard. (Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 155 ; Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 60; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 145).

Listing NGR: TQ7624869620

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Legacy System number:: 476593
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Coad, J , Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy, (1983), 60
Coad, J G, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, (1989), 145
Coad, J , Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850, (1982), 155

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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.