The Factory Club is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1983. Recreational hall.
The Factory Club
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-facade-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1983
- Type
- Recreational hall
- Address
- The Factory Club, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 620 743
- Coordinates
- 51.44532, 0.33042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Factory Club, built in 1878, was designed by Parr and Strong for Bevan's cement (Pyramid Brand) as a recreational hall and rooms for workers, a function it still serves for Blue Circle. The building features a brick-built basement, a double-height ground floor, and an attic, all topped with slate roofs and enhanced by classical decoration.
The central section is recessed and contains five tall round-headed windows, while the end sections resemble towers and feature doors accessed from the pavement via bridges. These end sections are adorned with Corinthian pilasters at the corners and rise to steeply pitched roofs in the French Château style, which include dormer windows and are topped with decorative cast-iron railings. A tall, elaborately decorated parapet with a central coat of arms crowns the entire structure. The building showcases skilled, relatively early examples of Portland cement decoration.
Local climate
The Factory Club sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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