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Latitude: 51.4436 / 51°26'37"N
Longitude: 0.7522 / 0°45'7"E
OS Eastings: 591358
OS Northings: 175221
OS Grid: TQ913752
Mapcode National: GBR RS1.JYW
Mapcode Global: VHKJ1.0Z05
Plus Code: 9F32CQV2+FV
Entry Name: Former Stables to Rear of Dockyard Cottage
Listing Date: 15 March 1977
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1258982
English Heritage Legacy ID: 445982
ID on this website: 101258982
Location: Blue Town, Swale, Kent, ME12
County: Kent
District: Swale
Electoral Ward/Division: Sheerness
Parish: Sheerness
Built-Up Area: Sheerness
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Stable
TQ 9175 SW MAIN ROAD
Sheerness Dockyard
933/2/98
Former Stables to rear
15.03.1977 of Dockyard Cottage
GV II
Alternatively known as: The Stables, SHEERNESS DOCKYARD
Officer's stables and carthouse, now offices. c1826, probably by George Ledwell Taylor, architect for the Navy Board, and Sir John Rennie, engineer, converted c1980. Yellow stock brick with rubbed brick heads, and slate hipped roof. Single-depth plan of central carthouse and flanking stables.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7 -window range. Symmetrical front with a plat band, brick cornice and parapet, central section set forward with 2 wide, altered former cart entrances now with late C20boardedlnfil[, beneath a central hay loft door; former stable doors each side with 3-pane overlights and late C20 doors, outer 616-pane sashes, and 316-pane first- floor sashes. Faces across a cobbled and paved stable yard. INTERIOR largely remodelled late C20. HISTORY: housed horses and carriage of the yard officers. Unlike the other Royal dockyards, Sheerness was all built at the same time. Within the little-altered SE corner of Rennie's model layout, containing offices, the chapel and the officers' accommodation, and part of a unique planned early C19 dockyard. (Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989; Rennie Sir J: The Formation and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours: London: 1851: 41 ; Sheerness, The Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town: 1995).
Listing NGR: TQ9135875221
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