Listed Building record TQ 76 NE 1070 - FORMER CAPTAINS HOUSE HMS PEMBROKE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1903 to 1903 Summary from record TQ 76 NE 1251: Former naval building.

Location

Grid reference TQ 76545 69601 (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
TQ7669NE CENTRAL AVENUE, Pembroke 686-1/2/93 (North side) 06/06/84 Former Captain's House, HMS Pembroke (Formerly Listed as: CENTRAL AVENUE, Hms Pembroke (North side) Captain's House at HMS Pembroke)
GV II
House and office for the Captain of the barracks, now offices. Dated 1903, by Sir Henry Pilkington. Red brick and Portland stone dressings, 3 ridge stacks with sunken panels, and slate roof. STYLE: Free Edwardian Baroque. PLAN: L-shaped double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-bay range. Set on rising ground, the right-hand entrance gable has impost bands to each floor and a cill band to the attic, with a coped gable with segmental pediment; the right-hand corner has an ashlar loggia with Ionic pilasters to a dentil cornice, open round arches to front and right-hand side, and an inner doorway and panelled door. Single-light ground-floor and first-floor windows with 4/4-pane sashes, and a 3-light attic mullion window, and 2 cruciform panels either side of the first-floor window inscribed 1903 and ER. The main elevation to the left, and the rear, have a full-height casement; main elevation has wide basement and ground-floor 3-light canted bays with cross windows to the ground floor, to a parapet; paired 6/6-pane sashes above, and large gabled eaves dormers with 3-light mullion windows and a cornice over; the right-hand bay has a plain basement doorway, paired windows above and 2 narrow first-floor windows. Rear has a pedimented gable at the opposite end to that at the front, and a basement doorway. Right-hand rear wing, with a parapeted stair tower in the re-entrant with two 4/4-pane sashes in each side. INTERIOR: a right-hand passage divided by pilasters to round arches, to a dogleg stair with square newels and balusters; plain stone fire surrounds. HISTORY: part of a carefully planned early C20 barracks with the barracks church, mess blocks (Central Ave.), barracks (Pasley Rd), (qqv) and other ancillary buildings.
Listing NGR: TQ7654469602

Description from record TQ 76 NE 1251:
Red brick building.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential : limeted
Condition : very good
Date of visit : 02/11/07


Unknown., 01/01/1889, File on Chatham naval barracks. (Unpublished document). SKE14402.

MMRG, 02/11/07, Captins House (Photograph). SKE14603.

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  • --- Unpublished document: Unknown.. 01/01/1889. File on Chatham naval barracks..
  • --- Photograph: MMRG. 02/11/07. Captins House.

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Record last edited

May 4 2010 12:55PM