Listed Building: 20 PROSPECT ROW (1259632)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 686-1, 5, 53
Date assigned 24 February 1950
Date last amended

Description

GILLINGHAM TQ7668NW PROSPECT ROW, Brompton 686-1/5/53 (East side) 24/02/50 No.20 (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive)) GV II House. Dated 1756. Flemish bond brick, brick right-hand gable stack and interlocking tile roof. STYLE: Mid Georgian. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 4-window range. A parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and left of centre doorway with attached fluted Doric columns, entablature, and pediment inscribed 1756/R&P, to a door with 2 raised panels and 4 glazed ones. Rubbed brick segmental-arched heads to plate-glass sashes, with 6/6-pane second-floor sashes, and blind windows over the entrance. INTERIOR: contains an entrance stair hall with wainscotting, a central lateral open dogleg stair with column on vase balusters and fluted newels, cornice and panelled shutters. HISTORY: matching windows and continuous brickwork with No.19 (qv), and probably built at the same time; the parapet may be altered. Prospect Row was begun around 1705 and completed by 1756. Part of a varied terrace of early-mid Georgian houses. (MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987-: 66). Listing NGR: TQ7612068693

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7611 6869 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NE
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM