Listed Building record TQ 76 NE 1125 - 15 PROSPECT ROW

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1720 to 1760

Location

Grid reference TQ 7612 6871 (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 686-1/5/49 (East side) 24/02/50 No.15 (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive))
GV II
House. c1740. Flemish bond brick, roof not visible. STYLE: Mid Georgian PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 4-window range. A parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and rubbed brick segmental-arched openings. A left of centre doorway has cast-iron posts to a flat canopy with thin modillion cornice, antae, and a round-arched doorway with plate-glass fanlight and half-glazed early C20 door; hornless 6/6-pane sashes in exposed, flush frames, with blind windows to the 2nd and 4th bays from the left on the second floor. INTERIOR: contains a wainscotted through passage divided by an elliptical arch, with a dogleg lateral stair. HISTORY: notable for the use of the newer Flemish bond, in contrast to the very similar but English-bonded No.14 (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: TQ7612668719


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