14, Prospect Row

GILLINGHAM

TQ7668NW PROSPECT ROW, Brompton 686-1/5/48 (East side) 21/12/73 No.14 (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive))

GV II

House. c1730. English bond brick, roof not visible. STYLE: Mid Georgian. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 6-window range. A wide, parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and brick segmental-arched openings. A right of centre doorway has square posts to a a flat canopy, antae, and narrow overlight to a 6-panel door with the top pair glazed; to the left a lower doorway to a through passage with a boarded door. Late C19 hornless 6/1-pane sashes in exposed frames, with blind windows to the outer bay on the second floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: notable for the use of the older English bond, in contrast to the very similar but Flemish-bonded No.15 (qv). Prospect Row was begun around 1705 and completed by 1756. Part of a varied terrace of early-mid Georgian houses (qqv). (MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987-: 66).

Listing NGR: TQ7612968728