Former Assistant Queens Harbourmasters Office is a Grade II* listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Offices.

Former Assistant Queens Harbourmasters Office

WRENN ID
dim-pier-indigo
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1999
Type
Offices
Address
Former Assistant Queens Harbourmasters Office, Anchor Wharf
OS grid reference
TQ 757 691
Coordinates
51.39377, 0.52537
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Assistant Queen's Harbourmaster's Office is an office building dating from around 1770, with some early 19th-century alterations. It features painted render, a brick lateral stack, and a hipped slate roof, showcasing a late Georgian style. The building has a two-room plan and is two stories high with a three-window range.

The ground floor includes a three-bay arcade supported by timber Tuscan columns, leading to an entablature, cornice, and parapet. The left bay is open to a recessed doorway with an architrave surrounding a six-panel door, while the middle and right bays are filled in with cambered heads over six-over-six pane sashes. The house has clasping pilaster strips beneath overhanging boxed eaves, also featuring six-over-six pane sashes. The two-window returns at the rear face the river and have a similar open arcade as the front, with a 20th-century iron balustrade, which has canted up due to subsidence of the house.

Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted to have retained original features. This building is a significant visual element within the largely complete Georgian dockyard and was originally built as offices for the dockyard's two Master Attendants, who were responsible for the ships moored in the river, either in Ordinary or awaiting repair.

Local climate

Former Assistant Queens Harbourmasters Office 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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