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14 & 15 Prospect Row, Brompton, 2010

Description: 14 Prospect Row

 

Grade: II

Date Listed: 21 December 1973

 

House. c1730. English bond brick, roof not visible.

STYLE: Mid Georgian.

PLAN: double-depth.

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 6-window range. A wide, parapeted front with a thin brick cornice, and brick segmental-arched openings. A right of centre doorway has square posts to a a flat canopy, antae, and narrow overlight

to a 6-panel door with the top pair lazed; to the left a lower doorway to a through passage with a boarded door. Late C19 hornless 6/1-pane sashes in exposed frames, with blind windows to the outer bay on the second floor.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORY: notable for the use of the older English bond, in contrast to the very similar but Flemish-bonded No.15 (qv). Prospect Row was begun around 1705 and completed by 1756. Part of a varied terrace of early-mid Georgian houses (qqv).

(MacDougall P: The Chatham Dockyard Story: Rainham: 1987-: 66).

 

Listing NGR: TQ7612968728

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Uploaded on June 26, 2010
Taken on June 21, 2010