20, Prospect Row

GILLINGHAM

TQ7668NW PROSPECT ROW, Brompton 686-1/5/53 (East side) 24/02/50 No.20 (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive))

GV II

House. Dated 1756. Flemish bond brick, brick right-hand gable stack and interlocking tile roof. STYLE: Mid Georgian. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 4-window range. A parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and left of centre doorway with attached fluted Doric columns, entablature, and pediment inscribed 1756/R&P, to a door with 2 raised panels and 4 glazed ones. Rubbed brick segmental-arched heads to plate-glass sashes, with 6/6-pane second-floor sashes, and blind windows over the entrance. INTERIOR: contains an entrance stair hall with wainscotting, a central lateral open dogleg stair with column on vase balusters and fluted newels, cornice and panelled shutters. HISTORY: matching windows and continuous brickwork with No.19 (qv), and probably built at the same time; the parapet may be altered. Prospect Row was begun around 1705 and completed by 1756. Part of a varied terrace of early-mid Georgian houses. (MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987-: 66).

Listing NGR: TQ7612068693