TQ 9175 SW MAIN ROAD Sheerness Dockyard 933/2/93 Wall extending approx 70m 15.03.1977 enclosing garden to S of Dockyard House GV II Garden wall. c1829-33, by George Ledwell Taylor, architect to the Navy Board, and Sir John Rennie Snr, engineer. Yellow stock brick with ashlar coping. Encloses former Commissioner's rear garden, with a segmental-arched doorway in the side, and related to the dockyard perimeter wall (qv). HISTORY: unlike the other Royal dockyards, Sheerness was all rebuilt at the same time. Within the little-altered SE corner of Rennie's model layout, containing the entrance, chapel and officers' accommodation, and part of a unique planned early C19 dockyard. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 54-55; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41; Sheerness, The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town: 1995:1). Listing NGR: TQ9138675152