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Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks

A Grade II* Listed Building in Gillingham, Medway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3938 / 51°23'37"N

Longitude: 0.5316 / 0°31'53"E

OS Eastings: 576218

OS Northings: 169126

OS Grid: TQ762691

Mapcode National: GBR PPP.H7J

Mapcode Global: VHJLV.57CB

Plus Code: 9F329GVJ+GJ

Entry Name: Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks

Listing Date: 8 July 1998

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375612

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469576

ID on this website: 101375612

Location: Brompton, Medway, Kent, ME7

County: Medway

Electoral Ward/Division: River

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Gillingham

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Gillingham St Mark

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description



TQ 6769 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD
(West side), Brompton

3134 Officers'block & attached
front basement railings,
Brompton Barracks

GV II*

Formerly known as: Officers'range, New Royal Artillery Barrack, Chatham Lines PASLEY POAD.
Artillery, later Engineers' barracks, officers' block. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor of the Office of Works, and Lt.-Col P, D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. PLAN: axial plan of back-to-back barrack rooms with transverse stairs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 1:5:1:6:5:6:1:5:1-bay range. A symmetrical front has originally matching 14-bay ranges with cornice and parapet, connected by a central ashlar distyle in antis 3-bay section with giant Tuscan columns to an entablature and balustrade, and recessed rusticated wall with round-arched ground-floor openings, a central open archway and flanking windows, and flat-headed first-floor windows, to 6/6-pane sashes.


Listing NGR: TQ7622469144

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