Listed Building: BOUNDARY WALLS EXTENDES FROM MAIN GATE ALONG NORTH AND NORTH EAST SIDE (1244508)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 933, 5, 10008
Date assigned 13 August 1999
Date last amended

Description

TQ 9075 SE GARRISON ROAD Sheerness Dockyard 933/5/10008 Boundary wall, extends from 15.03.1977 Main Gate along N & NE side GV II Dockyard boundary wall. c1824-31, by Sir John Rennie, engineer. 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 510 metres NW from the Main Gate (qv), and meets the Boat Basin (qv). Interrupted by Jetty Road entrance. HISTORY: built by Rennie to enclose his complete rebuilding of the Sheerness yard in the 18205. Part of a group with the boundary wall to the S (qv). (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 ). Listing NGR: TQ9093875425

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 9093 7542 (point)
Map sheet TQ97NW
Civil Parish SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 6:00PM