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Latitude: 51.3931 / 51°23'35"N
Longitude: 0.5323 / 0°31'56"E
OS Eastings: 576275
OS Northings: 169052
OS Grid: TQ762690
Mapcode National: GBR PPP.PD5
Mapcode Global: VHJLV.57SW
Plus Code: 9F329GVJ+6W
Entry Name: South Block and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Brompton Barracks
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375615
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469579
ID on this website: 101375615
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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TQ 7669 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD (West side), Brompton
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South block and attached front
basement area railings,Brompton
Barracks
GV II*
Formerly known as: West Privates Range, New Royal Artillery Barracks, Chatham Lines PASLEY ROAD.
Artillery, later Engineers'barracks. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor to the Office of Works, and Lt.-Colonel R D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. Late Georgian style. PLAN: axial plan of back-to-back barrack rooms with transverse stair corridors, with end rear wings. EXTERIOR,: 2 storeys and basement; 1:14:5:14.1-bay range. A symmetrical front has matching 16-bay ranges with 3-storey end pavilions, connected by a central 3-bay ashlar entrance section with giant distyle in antis Tuscan colunms to an entablature and balustrade; a rusticated wall behind has round-arched ground-floor doorway with radial fanlight and double doors and 6/6-pane sashes each side, and first-floor flat-headed 6/6-pane sashes. Pavilions have an ashlar first-floor band, tripartite ground-floor windows in segmental-arched recesses, first-floor 6/6 and second-floor 313-pane sashes; intervening sections have rectangular rusticated ashlar surrounds 4 bays from each end to round-arched doorways with radial fanlights and panelled doors. End 1:5:1 -window return wings have end pavilions as the front, and round-arched outer and central doorways. INTERIOR: altered mid C20. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings extend along front basement areas between inner and end pavilions and to end returns. HISTORY: To the rear were stables for 200 horses. Part of a quadrangular group with the North and Officer's blocks on an axis with the War memorials and Institute (qqv). Shares a compositional system with Wyatt's other large Artillery barracks, at Woolwich which gives it a Palladian air of monumentality. One of the largest and most impressive examples of military architecture in the country. (General Plan: 1806-: PPO, W078 2649).
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