Listed Building: OFFICERS BLOCK AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, BROMPTON BARRACKS (1375612)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 686-1, 3, 34
Date assigned 08 July 1998
Date last amended

Description

TQ 6769 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD (West side), Brompton 3134 Officers'block & attached front basement railings, Brompton Barracks GV II* Formerly known as: Officers'range, New Royal Artillery Barrack, Chatham Lines PASLEY POAD. Artillery, later Engineers' barracks, officers' block. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor of the Office of Works, and Lt.-Col P, D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. PLAN: axial plan of back-to-back barrack rooms with transverse stairs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 1:5:1:6:5:6:1:5:1-bay range. A symmetrical front has originally matching 14-bay ranges with cornice and parapet, connected by a central ashlar distyle in antis 3-bay section with giant Tuscan columns to an entablature and balustrade, and recessed rusticated wall with round-arched ground-floor openings, a central open archway and flanking windows, and flat-headed first-floor windows, to 6/6-pane sashes. Listing NGR: TQ7622469144

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7621 6912 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NE
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 5:35PM