Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks is a Grade II* listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1998. Barracks. 2 related planning applications.
Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks
- WRENN ID
- ghost-hall-barley
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1998
- Type
- Barracks
- Address
- Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks, Pasley Road, ME4 4UG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 762 691
- Coordinates
- 51.3938, 0.53156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Officers' Block and attached front basement railings at Brompton Barracks were built between 1804 and 1806 by James Wyatt, the Surveyor of the Office of Works, and Lieutenant Colonel P. D'Arcy RE for the Board of Ordnance. This building served as an artillery barracks and later for engineers. It is constructed of brick with limestone ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof over the pavilions.
The structure has an axial plan consisting of back-to-back barrack rooms with transverse stairs. It stands two storeys high with a basement and has a symmetrical front that originally included matching 14-bay ranges. The façade features a cornice and parapet, connected by a central three-bay section with giant Tuscan columns supporting an entablature and balustrade. The ground floor has round-arched openings, including a central open archway and flanking windows, while the first floor features flat-headed windows with 6/6-pane sashes.
Local climate
Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks 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 — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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