Listed Building record TQ 76 NE 1136 - 14 PROSPECT ROW
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7612 6872 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ76NE |
County | KENT |
Civil Parish | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
Unitary Authority | MEDWAY |
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
GILLINGHAM
TQ7668NW PROSPECT ROW, Brompton 686-1/5/48 (East side) 21/12/73 No.14 (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive))
GV II
House. c1730. English bond brick, roof not visible. STYLE: Mid Georgian. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 6-window range. A wide, parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and brick segmental-arched openings. A right of centre doorway has square posts to a a flat canopy, antae, and narrow overlight to a 6-panel door with the top pair glazed; to the left a lower doorway to a through passage with a boarded door. Late C19 hornless 6/1-pane sashes in exposed frames, with blind windows to the outer bay on the second floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: notable for the use of the older English bond, in contrast to the very similar but Flemish-bonded No.15 (qv). Prospect Row was begun around 1705 and completed by 1756. Part of a varied terrace of early-mid Georgian houses (qqv). (MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987-: 66).
Listing NGR: TQ7612968728
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2008 12:26PM