Listed Building: BOUNDARY WALL EXTENDS FROM MAIN GATE ROUND SOUTH AND EAST SIDES OF FORMER DOCKYARD (1259030)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 933, 5, 116
Date assigned 15 March 1977
Date last amended

Description

TQ 9175 SW GARRISON ROAD Sheerness Dockyard 933/2/116 Boundary wall extends from 15.03.1977 Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard GV II Includes: Boundary wall, extends from Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard, HIGH STREET, SHEERNESS DOCKYARD Dockyard boundary wall. 1824-31, by Sir John Rennie. Yellow stock brick with granite plinth and coping. Tall wall with a band of granite ashlar, above which shallow buttresses divide the wall into square panels. Extends approximately 500 metres SE from Nos 1 and 2 Main Gate to the N of the former Dockyard Church (qqv), from where a section ramps down to extend to meet the retaining wall in front of the Church. The main wall runs E of the Dockyard House garden (qv), where it contains a segmental- arched doorway leading from Church Road for officers going to church. The wall along the S side of the yard extends from the Wend of Naval Terrace (qv), and extends W for approx. 300m before turning S for approx. 170m; in the corner ramps lead up to an entrance. This section of wall facing High Street has square lamps on cast-iron brackets attached at intervals. HISTORY: built by Rennie to enclose his complete rebuilding of the Sheerness yard in the 18205. Of historic interest, and part of a good group with the officers' accommodation, church and offices (qqv) in the little-altered SE corner of the yard. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 182; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41). TQ 9175 SW HIGH STREET Sheerness Dockyard 933/2/116 Boundary wall, extends from Main Gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard GV II See under: Boundary wall extends from Main gate round S and E sides of former Dockyard, GARRISON ROAD, SHEERNESS DOCKYARD Listing NGR: TQ9137275228

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

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Location

Grid reference TQ 9137 7522 (point)
Map sheet TQ97NW
Civil Parish SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 6:00PM