Building Number 86

TQ 9075 SE QUEENBOROUGH IN SHEPPEY JETTY ROAD

933/5/10002 Sheerness Dockyard Building Number 86 25.4.94

GV II

Dockyard building, use unknown, disused. Late C19, after 1889; NE block added after the two earlier ones c1900. Iron frame with brick infill to lower walls, hipped corrugated iron roof to N block and gabled corrugated iron roof to NE block; gabled slate roof to S block. PLAN: 3 sections, a rectangular plan S block with square plan block to N and large external chimney to N of later NE block. EXTERIOR: .single-storey 6-bay S block with upper timber small-paned windows above brick-filled panels, continued round to S gable, which has tall doorway to centre. Similar double tier of fenestration to taller 5- bay N block, also continued round to N end; lantern surmounts hipped roof. 2-storey; 5-bay NE block, with a steel frame and brick panels, roofed parallel to N block and with upper floor clad in corrugated iron above strips of original glazing. INTERIOR: S block has steel or cast-iron H-section columns and wrought-iron trusses, with curved compression members to roof. N block has H-section columns with an iron roof with queen and princess rods and angled struts, and a collar supporting the louvre. NE block has timber roof. HISTORY: probably built for ship repairing and sited to the E of Sir John Rennie's 1820s dry docks (qv); part of a group with them and the Boat store and Building 84 (qqv). The N block was built on the site of supplying kilns, themselves built between 1847 and 1862. A later dockyard building within Rennie's planned layout, with group value with the other listed structures. Sources: Sheerness the Dockyard, Defences and Blue Town: 1995; NMR BI NO 92379.

Listing NGR: TQ9095675374