Number 4 Dry Dock is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Dry dock.
Number 4 Dry Dock
- WRENN ID
- tall-corner-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1999
- Type
- Dry dock
- Address
- Number 4 Dry Dock, Main Gate Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 693
- Coordinates
- 51.39601, 0.52696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Dry Dock is a dry dock located in Chatham Dockyard, built around 1840 and enlarged in 1908. It is constructed from granite and concrete, featuring stepped sides with flights of steps and haulage slides. The side of the former entrance is curved to accommodate lock gates, which are now closed by a 20th-century steel caisson. This dry dock is part of a group of three 19th-century dry docks situated at the center of the historic dockyard. Its wider floor design makes it particularly suitable for servicing merchant ships.
Local climate
Number 4 Dry Dock 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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