Boundary Wall Extends From Main Gate Round South And East Sides Of Former Dockyard

The boundary wall at Sheerness Dockyard, built between 1824 and 1831 by Sir John Rennie, encircles the southern and eastern sides of the former Dockyard. Constructed from yellow stock brick, it features a granite plinth and coping. The tall wall has a band of granite ashlar, with shallow buttresses that create square panels along its length. It extends approximately 500 meters southeast from the Main Gate, near the former Dockyard Church, where a section ramps down to meet the retaining wall in front of the Church.

To the east of the Dockyard House garden, the wall includes a segmental-arched doorway that provides access from Church Road for officers attending church. The southern section of the wall begins at the end of Naval Terrace and runs west for about 300 meters before turning south for approximately 170 meters, where ramps lead up to an entrance. Along the section facing High Street, square lamps are mounted on cast-iron brackets at intervals. This wall was built to enclose Rennie's complete rebuilding of the Sheerness yard in the 1820s and is historically significant, forming part of a cohesive group with the officers' accommodation, church, and offices in the largely unaltered southeastern corner of the yard.