Description

GILLINGHAM

TQ77SE DOCK HEAD ROAD, Chatham Dockyard
686-1/6/58 (North side (off))
06/06/84 Combined Ship Trade Office PP69 to
rear of No.8 Machine shop

GV II

Machine shop and offices. Dated 1880. Cast-iron frame, brick
office block and ground-floor infill, with corrugated-iron
cladding and roof.
PLAN: rectangular with N office extension.
EXTERIOR: 2-storeys; 11-bay range. Gabled ends, sides express
iron frame with strip windows 3 per bay with mullion glazing
bars in upper part of each floor, wooden eaves cornice on
paired brackets. Offices have a 5-window range N gable with a
plat band kneelers and raised verges band, with
segmental-arches to plate-glass sashes and central double
half-glazed doors.
INTERIOR: not inspected but reported to include a timber roof
with Queen post struts and principals that reach only up to
the Queen struts. Group value with the Boilershop and No.8
Machine shop as part of the mid C19 development of the N end
of the Chatham docks. Various mid C20 single storey additions
to the sides.

Listing NGR: TQ7697568044

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558154

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