Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550729

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)