Walls and gate piers enclosing front drive and west garden, former Captain's House is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1984. Walls, gate piers. 1 related planning application.

Walls and gate piers enclosing front drive and west garden, former Captain's House

WRENN ID
shadowed-railing-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1984
Type
Walls, gate piers
Address
Walls and gate piers enclosing front drive and west garden, former Captain's House, Central Avenue, Gillingham
OS grid reference
TQ 765 695
Coordinates
51.39782, 0.53633
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The walls and gate piers enclosing the front drive and west garden of the former Captain's House were built between 1897 and 1902 by Sir Henry Pilkington. Constructed from brick with stone dressings, the walls feature wide flat piers with sections in between that have sunken curved coping, which contain steel spearhead railings. The rusticated piers are topped with a coved cornice and ball finials. The wall steps down to the west and extends approximately 50 meters around the garden to the west and north, with some cut-outs partially blocked by brick. This structure is part of the former HMS Pembroke barracks.

Local climate

Walls and gate piers enclosing front drive and west garden, former Captain's House 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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