Former Guard House is a Grade II* listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Guard house, club house.
Former Guard House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-railing-laurel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1999
- Type
- Guard house, club house
- Address
- Former Guard House, Anchor Wharf
- OS grid reference
- TQ 757 686
- Coordinates
- 51.38983, 0.52395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Guard House, now a clubhouse, is an early 19th-century building located on the south side of Chatham Dockyard at Anchor Wharf. It is constructed of brick and features timber columns, with the roof not visible. The building has a single-depth plan and is a single storey with a three-window range. The front includes an open arcade supported by four Tuscan columns, leading to an entablature and a moulded eaves cornice, with steps leading up to a flagged area underneath. The central doorway has a four-pane overlight and three-panel double doors, flanked by 8/8-pane sash windows on either side.
Inside, the space is plain and lacks decorative or functional features, although it has been reported to have been altered into a mid-20th-century clubhouse bar. The building is situated to the southwest of Storehouse No. 3. It is listed for its close association with the ropery and warehouse complex at Chatham, which is recognized as one of the most significant groupings of industrial architecture in the country.
Local climate
Former Guard House 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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