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Latitude: 51.3931 / 51°23'35"N
Longitude: 0.5284 / 0°31'42"E
OS Eastings: 575998
OS Northings: 169044
OS Grid: TQ759690
Mapcode National: GBR PPP.ND5
Mapcode Global: VHJLV.37NV
Plus Code: 9F329GVH+78
Entry Name: South Tower House
Listing Date: 13 August 1999
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378601
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476554
ID on this website: 101378601
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
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM COLLEGE ROAD
(West side) Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/45
South Tower House
GV II*
House. c1718, altered late C19. English bond brick, with late C19 brick lateral stack and slate pyramidal hipped roof. PLAN: single-depth.
EXTERIOR: 3 storey; 2-window range. Battered ground-floor buttresses, plat band, and second-floor Lombard frieze over a band of shallow rectangular recesses; inserted late C19 segmental-arches to 6/6-pane sashes; 2 blocked first-floor oculi to the S and N sides, with a wide, blocked round-arched ground-floor gateway to the W. Single-storey late C19 red brick gabled extension attached to the S with a 2/2-pane sash. INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: part of the E perimeter wall including the North Tower House and Gatehouse (qqv), built during the early C18 expansion of the Dockyard. The wall originally surrounded the Yard, with towers at the corners with pairs of oculi to each external face and a crenellated parapet. Demonstrates the need for protection of the Yard before the construction of the mid C18 Chatham Lines.
(Sources: Coad J: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard 1700-1850: London: 1982: 141 ; Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 83; 1814: ADM: 140/19).
Listing NGR: TQ7599769042
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