Swimming pool is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1998. Swimming pool. 5 related planning applications.
Swimming pool
- WRENN ID
- gentle-corner-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1998
- Type
- Swimming pool
- Address
- Swimming pool, North Road, Gillingham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 768 696
- Coordinates
- 51.3983, 0.54149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The swimming pool, built in the 1900s by Colonel Sir H Pilkington RE, is a disused structure located on the north side of North Road in Gillingham. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan, with a north entrance gable that includes clasping crenellated towers connected by a recessed parapeted segmental-arched bridge, which has a four-light mullion window. The gable is set back behind this feature. The plain parapeted sides of the building are supported by buttresses and have small windows.
This swimming pool is notable for being one of the earliest barracks swimming pools, and it, along with the adjoining gym, reflects efforts made at the end of the 19th century to improve the physical fitness of the navy. It is part of a complete naval barracks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Swimming pool 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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