BROMPTON CONSERVATION AREA

Brompton Village forms part of the Brompton Lines Conservation Area. The various documents relating to this may be found on the Medway Council website:

The conservation area contains much of the military infrastructure that was put in place to protect Chatham Naval Dockyard and the historically important centre of Brompton village.
It is divided into six character areas:

• the Chatham Lines - a system of 18th and 19th century fortifications designed to protect Chatham Dockyard against a landward attack - complete with their former fields of fire, the Great Lines and Lower Lines;
• the Royal School of Military Engineering - a fine 19th century barracks;
• the village centre of Old Brompton;
• the Eastern Borders - 18th and 19th century houses lining the eastern edge of the field of fire;
• Old Gun Wharf (the former ordnance depot of the dockyard) and
• Kitchener Barracks – a largely 1930s barracks on a historic site.

These are the documents relating to the different areas:

• Introduction to Brompton Lines Conservation Area Appraisal (pdf 608KB)
• Character Area 1: The Lines (pdf 1,056KB)
• Character Area 2: Brompton Barracks (pdf 1,019KB)
• Character Area 3: Brompton Village (pdf 1,061KB)
• Character Area 4: The Eastern Borders (pdf 1,423KB)
• Character Area 5 and 6: Gun Wharf and Kitchener Barracks (pdf 822KB)
• Management Issues (pdf 1,204KB) Notices (pdf 516KB)