Listed Building record TQ 76 NE 1199 - LECTURE THEATRE, BROMPTON BARRACKS

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1966

Location

Grid reference TQ 7636 6901 (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:
TQ 7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY POAD
(west side), Brompton
3/30
Lecture Theatre,
Brompton Barracks
GV II
Also known as: Study Centre, Brompton Barracks PASLEY POAD, Brompton.
Lecture theatre. Early C19, extended early-mid C20. Brick with hipped slate roof Single-depth plan with rear central lecture hall. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 3:5:3-window range. Central 5-window range set forward to front and back with full-height round-arched recesses containing lunettes, with rubbed brick flat arches to 616-pane sashes to outer blocks. A full-width extension extends across the front with wide pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet, central doorway has an overlight and double doors, a round-arched doorway with fanlight to the left side of the right-hand range, and a left-hand mid C20 plainer range with a central double glazed door. INTERIOR,: has an entrance hall and a rear lecture theatre with right-hand proscenium arch, left-hand gallery on cast-iron posts, cornice, coved ceiling and moulded beams. HISTOPY: an early example of buildings for education within a barracks. Group value as part of an axial arrangement with the Barracks buildings and Institute (qqv).
Listing NGR: TQ7636269019


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

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Record last edited

Jul 21 2021 3:47PM