Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1984. A C20 Military gate structure. 8 related planning applications.
Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke
- WRENN ID
- second-lintel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1984
- Type
- Military gate structure
- Address
- Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke, Pembroke Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 764 695
- Coordinates
- 51.39761, 0.5348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main gate, lodge, and walls to the former HMS Pembroke, built around 1902 by Sir Henry Pilkington, are notable features located on Dock Road in Gillingham. The structure is made of brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof.
The main gate features four diagonally-set piers flanking the outer wickets and a wide gateway. The single-room lodge is adjacent to the gate, and the walls extend approximately 40 meters to the right. The piers include impost bands and sunken round-arched panels topped with cornices, along with attached square piers capped with domes. The outer round-arched wickets have split keystones and a parapet above. Wrought-iron gates with wreathed panels and four former main gates with dog rails and panels are hung from the piers. A central pier was removed around 1990, and a late 20th-century steel overthrow has been added.
The lodge features clasping buttresses leading to a parapet, gabled ends, and a single wide round-arched window with mullions and glazing bars. There is a lateral stack present. The railings consist of diagonal square piers with coved coping and railings adorned with curved finials. The walls extend approximately 75 meters to the north of the main gate on Pembroke Road and about 300 meters to the south and southeast on Dock Road and Cumberland Road, featuring coved stone coping and tall buttress piers.
Historically, this site was part of a carefully planned early 20th-century naval barracks, which included the former Captain's House, Mess block, barracks, and ancillary buildings.
Local climate
Main gate, lodge and walls to former HMS Pembroke 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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