Timber Seasoning Store, South is a Grade II* listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. Store.
Timber Seasoning Store, South
- WRENN ID
- fallen-column-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1999
- Type
- Store
- Address
- Timber Seasoning Store, South, East Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 760 693
- Coordinates
- 51.39553, 0.52968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Timber Seasoning Store, located in Chatham Dockyard, was designed in 1771. It features a weatherboarded timber frame set on a brick plinth, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof, and has a rectangular plan. The building is a single storey with a nine-gable roof. It has a regular layout with double doors in the gables, which are louvred above, and slatted sides that include five metal-framed windows.
Inside, the store is three bays wide and has bracketed posts, racks for stacking sawn timber, and timber trusses. This structure was introduced on the orders of the Earl of Sandwich to address the issues of using green timber in the Navy's ships, which led to high maintenance costs. The Navy Board created an early example of modular design, with many similar buildings constructed at the Navy's yards. Most of these structures became obsolete by 1860, making the two remaining at Chatham, including this one, significant survivors.
Local climate
Timber Seasoning Store, South 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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