Listed Building record TQ 76 NE 1130 - 20 PROSPECT ROW

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1756 to 1756

Location

Grid reference TQ 7611 6869 (point)
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 686-1/5/53 (East side) 24/02/50 No.20 (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive))
GV II
House. Dated 1756. Flemish bond brick, brick right-hand gable stack and interlocking tile roof. STYLE: Mid Georgian. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 4-window range. A parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and left of centre doorway with attached fluted Doric columns, entablature, and pediment inscribed 1756/R&P, to a door with 2 raised panels and 4 glazed ones. Rubbed brick segmental-arched heads to plate-glass sashes, with 6/6-pane second-floor sashes, and blind windows over the entrance. INTERIOR: contains an entrance stair hall with wainscotting, a central lateral open dogleg stair with column on vase balusters and fluted newels, cornice and panelled shutters. HISTORY: matching windows and continuous brickwork with No.19 (qv), and probably built at the same time; the parapet may be altered. Prospect Row was begun around 1705 and completed by 1756. Part of a varied terrace of early-mid Georgian houses. (MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987-: 66).
Listing NGR: TQ7612068693


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Feb 19 2008 12:26PM