Brick construction, slate roofed terraced houses, 16 in number, two located at east end larger in accommodation.
Owner : Public
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential : None
Condition : poor
Date of visit : 02/04/07

TQ 7568 7287. Ninteenth and twentieth century barracks associated with the Chattenden Magazines (Monument 1481790). Identified on OS maps of 1909 as Police Quarters and apparently manned by the Metropolitan Police until after the First World War, at which time the job of policing the magazines was given to the Royal Marines. (1-3)

The barracks, known as the Central Terrace, have been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. (4)

Untitled Source (Unspecified Type). SKE56112.

David Evans, 01/01/06, Arming the Fleet (Article in monograph). SKE14431.

Admiralty., 01/01/1909, Map of Naval magazine complex. (Collection). SKE14360.

Admiralty., 01/01/1909, Map of Naval magazine complex. (Collection). Ske14360.

MMRG, 04/02/07, Police Houses Central Terace (Photograph). SKE14640.

MMRG, 04/02/07, Police Houses Central Terace (Photograph). Ske14640.

Ordinance Survey, 1909, OS Map of Kent 1:2500 1909 (Map). SKE56013.

RAF, 1942, NMR RAF/HLA/617 6100 20-JUN-1942 (Photograph). SKE56049.

CgMs Consulting, 2009, Built heritage basline (sic) assessment in respect of Chattenden Barracks and Lodge Hill, Medway, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE32455.