Listed Building: THE HOSPITAL OF SIR JOHN HAWKINS AND ATTACHED FRONT RAILINGS (1268233)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 762-1, 3, 10
Date assigned 29 October 1952
Date last amended

Description

CHATHAM TQ7567NW HIGH STREET 762-1/3/10 (North side) 29/10/52 Nos.1-12 (Consecutive) The Hospital of Sir John Hawkins and attached front railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Chatham Town (North side) Nos.1-12 (Consecutive) The Hospital of Sir John Hawkins) GV II Almshouses, now sheltered housing. Founded 1592, rebuilt 1789, converted to flats 1983. Brick with rendered plinth, brick rear lateral stacks and a tiled hipped roof. PLAN: parallel ranges each of 4 single-depth plan houses to a quadrangle, with a central rear Council House and rear 3-house range. EXTERIOR: each of 2 storeys; 1-window range. Parapeted flat gables to the street have a plinth, blind round-headed arch and rectangular sunken panel above. Each house has cambered heads to a doorway nearer the rear and 3-light mullion and transom windows with central metal casements and leaded lights. Council Room is a single-storey, 3-bay range, a shallow pedimented gable opens above the doorway, round-arched openings the doorway with a radial fanlight and flush-panelled door, and blocked flanking windows. A brick archway to the right of the Council Room leads to a C19 range of yellow brick houses matching the front ranges. INTERIOR: a hall passage leads to C20 lateral stairs; altered 1983. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached metal railings on dwarf wall connect the two ranges, with a central round overthrow. HISTORY: founded for retired mariners. (The Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: London: 1976-: 202). Listing NGR: TQ7528167943

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

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred TQ 7525 6792 (13m by 14m) (3 map features)
Map sheet TQ76NE
Civil Parish ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Sep 6 2011 4:05PM