REVIT Heritage Report.pdf

Torfaen County Borough Council
REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites
APPENDIX 2:
Medway Council Inventory of Sites: Chatham Historic Dockyard
HMS Pembroke, the Royal Naval Barracks at Chatham was built between the
Steam Yard and Brompton barracks in the early years of the 20 th century.
No. 2 Dry Dock, 1856 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II* Listed and
house HMS Cavalier, the Royal Navy’s last operational Second World War destroyer.
No. 3 Dry Dock 1820 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II* Listed and
Chatham’s first dry docks to be built of stone by John Rennie in 1820 along with the
South Dock Pumping Station. It houses HM Submarine Ocelot, the last warship built
for the Royal Navy.
No. 4 Dry Dock, c 1840 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II Listed was
rebuilt and enlarged in 1908-10 it houses the restored Victorian naval sloop, HMS
Gannet (1878);
South Dock Pumping Station, 1822 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade
II* Listed was designed by John Rennie. The Pumping Station was used to pump
water out of all three docks and back to the river. The original steam beam engine was
replaced by an electric pump in 1929. It remains in use today.
No. 3 Covered Slip, 1838 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade I Listed, built
for the Royal Navy, at the time of its construction it was one of the world’s largest
timber span structures. In 1901 an internal steel mezzanine was added when the slip
was adapted for use as a boat store
Nos. 4, 5 and 6 Covered Slips 1847-48 are Scheduled Ancient Monuments and
Grade I Listed. They are a range of three identical early cast iron slip covers with
corrugated iron roof sheeting. It houses the RNLI’s collection of Historic Lifeboats.
No. 7 Covered Slip, 1855 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade I Listed. It
was last of the slips to be built and covered and its cast and wrought iron frame is one
of the earliest examples of a modern trussed roof and significant for introduction of
integral overhead travelling crane rails. It now houses HM submarine Ocelot, the last
warship built for the Royal Navy at Chatham and now preserved at the Historic
Dockyard was launched.
Sail and Colour Loft, 1723 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II* and one
of the Historic Dockyard’s earliest surviving buildings, it was erected for the sailmakers
and used to make and repair the sails of ships built and repaired at Chatham.
Mast Houses and Mould Loft 1753-58 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade
I containing a range of seven timber framed mast houses, built largely from reused
warship timbers. Today the building houses the Wooden Walls gallery.
Wheelwrights Shop, c 1786 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II* it was
built as a three bay Mast House. Beneath the floor lay the Mary Rose warship. The
Wheelwrights Shop houses the Historic Dockyard’s restaurant.
Lead and Paint Mill, 1817-19 is a scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade I was
designed by Edward Holl, as a fireproof construction and incorporated a beam engine.
House Carpenters Shop, 1740 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II was
built for the carpenters who looked after the dockyard’s own buildings. The building
now forms part of a series of craft workshops.
Timber Seasoning Sheds, 1774 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II*
built to provide to store and season wood before use. The seasoning sheds are
probably the first standardised industrial buildings to be erected in large numbers in
Britain.
The Joiners Shop, 1789 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade II* a twostorey
building to provide an workshop for the making of treenails, oak pins used to
‘nail’ ships’ timbers together.
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