Guard House West and Store is a Grade II* listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Guard house.
Guard House West and Store
- WRENN ID
- waning-buttress-jay
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1999
- Type
- Guard house
- Address
- Guard House West and Store, Main Gate Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 689
- Coordinates
- 51.3919, 0.52656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guard House West and Store is a mid-19th century building located on the west side of Main Gate Road in Chatham Dockyard. It features a rendered exterior with timber columns and has a single-depth plan. The building is single storey and comprises a four-bay range, complete with a plinth, cornice, and parapet. The cornice is adorned with paired flat modillions and paired columns. The left-hand bays include outer doorways and a central window with three 3-pane sashes. The middle section projects and has a tripartite window with two 2-pane sashes, while the right-hand section contains a single window. On the left-hand return, there are two 6-pane windows with panels beneath. The rear of the building has unpainted brick walls between the columns, featuring sunken panels. The interior is plain and is currently used as a store. This building is part of a significant and cohesive group of Georgian dockyard structures.
Local climate
Guard House West and Store sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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