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Latitude: 51.3984 / 51°23'54"N
Longitude: 0.5321 / 0°31'55"E
OS Eastings: 576241
OS Northings: 169636
OS Grid: TQ762696
Mapcode National: GBR PPP.9CD
Mapcode Global: VHJLV.53PV
Plus Code: 9F329GXJ+9V
Entry Name: Lower Boat Store
Listing Date: 13 August 1999
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378639
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476593
ID on this website: 101378639
Location: Brompton, Medway, Kent, ME4
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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM NORTH POND SIDE ROAD
(North side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/81
Lower Boat Store
GV II*
Workshop and boat store. 1844. Weather-boarded timber frame with corrugated-iron roof. PLAN: rectangular open plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 28-window range. Overhanging eaves; varied fenestration, most 6/6-pane sashes, with taller first-floor windows with metal glazing bars; E end has 3 large first-floor windows. E gable has ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, first-floor 20-paned windows and large double windows to the top, with metal frames; similar W gable. N elevation has mostly paired ground-floor sashes and wide double sliding doors, 9-pane windows under the eaves, 3 larger E windows.
INTERIOR: large posts with diagonal braces on knees supporting loft floor above, 3 bays deep, with king and queen posts and clasped purlins.
HISTORY: replaced an earlier store. The best surviving example of a type of workshop for timber working and stores once common in the naval yards and now, with the pair of boat stores at Portsmouth, rare.
Part of a fine group of naval buildings making up a complete Georgian dockyard.
(Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 155 ; Coad J: Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy: London: 1983: 60; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 145).
Listing NGR: TQ7624869620
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