Former Galvanising Shed (Visitor Centre)
FORMER GALVANISING SHED (VISITOR CENTRE), EAST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378644
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Galvanising Shed (Visitor Centre)
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GALVANISING SHED (VISITOR CENTRE), EAST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378644
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Galvanising Shed (Visitor Centre)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GALVANISING SHED (VISITOR CENTRE), 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:
- FORMER GALVANISING SHED (VISITOR CENTRE), 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 76090 69377
Details
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM EAST ROAD
(West side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/52
Former Galvanising shed
(Visitor Centre)
GV II
Galvanising shed, now visitor centre. Mid C19, altered c198S. Brick with stone dressings, with slate roof. Italianate style. Rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 12-bay range. Coped gabled ends have raised centres with flanking pilasters, cambered head to boarded vehicle entrance, flanking round-arched windows blind below the springing and a large central round-arched windows with diagonal and central keys. Sides divided by flat-headed recesses containing round-arched windows as the front. Raised louvred ridge.
INTERIOR: metal roof trusses, with a gantry crane supported by central posts. HISTORY: galvanised corrugated sheet (patented 18205) was increasingly used for enclosure from the 18405, and the Admiralty Works Department were pioneers in its use on the slip roofs. The slip roofs were recovered in zinc-plated sheet iron by the 18405, and thereafter the use of corrugated Iron increased in use in the naval yards. Part of the development of the dockyard with the No.1 Smithery (qv), associated with the mid-C19 increase in iron for buildings and warships.
Listing NGR: TQ7608969373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476598
- 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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