Number 8 And Attached Iron Railings

GILLINGHAM

TQ7668NW PROSPECT ROW, Brompton 686-1/5/43 (East side) 21/12/73 No.8 and attached iron railings (Formerly Listed as: PROSPECT ROW, Brompton Nos.2-20 (Consecutive))

GV II

House. Dated 1708 by owner, partly rebuilt mid-late C19. Painted stucco with a brick lateral stack behind the ridge and tiled roof. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. A right-hand round-arched doorway to a through passage has a boarded door, with half a blind window above; to the left is the entrance with thin surround and cornice to a door with 6 raised panels, and a left-hand mid C19 canted bay, plate-glass sashes, and a small flat-headed casement dormer. Eaves cornice. INTERIOR: panelled ground floor, central fireplace, and winder stair to the rear with curtail, turned balusters and uncut string. Bay window seat. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached iron railings flank archway. HISTORY: the central archway and blind upper window look like the centre of a 5-bay house cut in half. Prospect Row was built between 1705 and 1756. Part of a good mixed terrace of early-mid Georgian houses.

Listing NGR: TQ7614068761