Listed Building: LECTURE THEATRE, BROMPTON BARRACKS (1375608)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 686-1, 3, 30
Date assigned 08 July 1998
Date last amended

Description

TQ 7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY POAD (west side), Brompton 3/30 Lecture Theatre, Brompton Barracks GV II Also known as: Study Centre, Brompton Barracks PASLEY POAD, Brompton. Lecture theatre. Early C19, extended early-mid C20. Brick with hipped slate roof Single-depth plan with rear central lecture hall. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 3:5:3-window range. Central 5-window range set forward to front and back with full-height round-arched recesses containing lunettes, with rubbed brick flat arches to 616-pane sashes to outer blocks. A full-width extension extends across the front with wide pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet, central doorway has an overlight and double doors, a round-arched doorway with fanlight to the left side of the right-hand range, and a left-hand mid C20 plainer range with a central double glazed door. INTERIOR,: has an entrance hall and a rear lecture theatre with right-hand proscenium arch, left-hand gallery on cast-iron posts, cornice, coved ceiling and moulded beams. HISTOPY: an early example of buildings for education within a barracks. Group value as part of an axial arrangement with the Barracks buildings and Institute (qqv). Listing NGR: TQ7636269019

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7636 6901 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NE
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM