Listed Building: 14 PROSPECT ROW (1259623)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 686-1, 5, 48
Date assigned 21 December 1973
Date last amended

Description

GILLINGHAM TQ7668NW PROSPECT ROW, Brompton 686-1/5/48 (East side) 21/12/73 No.14 (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive)) GV II House. c1730. English bond brick, roof not visible. STYLE: Mid Georgian. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 6-window range. A wide, parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and brick segmental-arched openings. A right of centre doorway has square posts to a a flat canopy, antae, and narrow overlight to a 6-panel door with the top pair glazed; to the left a lower doorway to a through passage with a boarded door. Late C19 hornless 6/1-pane sashes in exposed frames, with blind windows to the outer bay on the second floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: notable for the use of the older English bond, in contrast to the very similar but Flemish-bonded No.15 (qv). Prospect Row was begun around 1705 and completed by 1756. Part of a varied terrace of early-mid Georgian houses (qqv). (MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987-: 66). Listing NGR: TQ7612968728

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7612 6872 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NE
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM