Listed Building record TQ 76 NE 1136 - 14 PROSPECT ROW

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1710 to 1750

Location

Grid reference TQ 7612 6872 (point)
Map sheet TQ76NE
County KENT
Civil Parish GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT
Unitary Authority MEDWAY

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Full Description

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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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM