A historic residency dating back to the 1830s has hit the market for a six-figure sum.

Sitting as part of the Heritage Quarter of the Sheerness Dockyard, the grade-II listed terraced building has four floors housing seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, two sitting rooms, two dining rooms, and a bar.

The floor space covers 4,562sq ft, not including the garden which sits at the back and covers a further 220ft looking over the mouth of the River Medway.

The home is set within a private residential site, gated, and managed by 24-hour security.

It was originally built as part of the Royal Naval Dockyard, designed to house top-ranking officers stationed in the area at the beginning of the 19th century.

The site was bought by Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust in 2010 who worked to restore the Georgian-style buildings and keep the area from redevelopment.

The double-fronted house is on sale for £950,000 outpricing the average home on the Island by £670,000.

Last year another one of the homes in the old naval base hit the market at around £800,000.

But even with the almost £1 million price tag it isn’t the highest-priced dwelling on Sheppey – that accolade belongs to the Tudor mansion Shurland Hall in Eastchurch whose owners put it on the market in 2018 for £2.5 million.

Earlier this year the grade-II listed church building sitting within the dockyard’s confines also went through an £8.5 million renovation.

In the Age of Sail, the Royal Navy established facilities close to safe anchorages where the fleet would be based.

In 1567, Chatham Dockyard was established but due to temperamental weather and varying river depths, vessels entering the River Medway for repairs or to replenish supplies could be delayed for considerable lengths of time.

The Navy Board therefore needed to find more reliable locations for dockyards along the river.

Famed diarist Samuel Pepys was also clerk of the acts of the Navy Board and during his tenure, set up the dockyards in Sheppey in the 17th century.

The first iteration of the dockyard opened in the 1660s and the construction of amenities continued into the eighteenth century.

By the early 19th century, the then-aged dockyard required a complete modernisation, and Scottish civil engineer John Rennie the Elder was commissioned to create new plans.

In 1813 they gained approval and architects, Edward Holl and his successor George Ledwell Taylor, were responsible for executing the designs.

The 56-acre site was created at a cost of some £2,586,083 and completed by 1830.

The Royal Naval dockyard closed in 1960 and once the Royal Navy had left, the Medway Port Authority took over the site for commercial use and it was later taken on by Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust.