Hand-tinted copy of ground- and first-floor plans of four and five Keep Yard showing the proposed conversion to offices and welfare areas for Ministry staff, with floor plans of six Keep Yard and a small diagram showing their location

Date:: Oct 1962

Location:: Dover Castle, Keep Yard, Number 4, 4 Keep Yard, Dover, Kent; Show all locations

Dover Castle, Keep Yard, Number 5, 5 Keep Yard, Dover, Kent

Dover Castle, Keep Yard, Number 6, 6 Keep Yard, Dover, Kent

Dover Castle, Keep Yard Barracks, Keep Yard, Dover, Kent

Reference:: MP/DOV0407

Type:: Measured Drawing

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Description

Four, five and six are shown as a unit with the alterations detailed in four and five only. The alterations were shown on the original plan, including existing and new partitions and fixed furniture. The partitions and objects of the new layout have been tinted on this copy, emphasising them.

The plans are labelled with the proposed uses of the rooms and some measurements are given, There have also been later alterations and notes added this copy in pencil. The floor plans are at a scale of 1" to 8ft. The little plan at the top which shows the position of these buildings in relation to the Keep is at 1:500.

Subsequently part (or all) of these three buildings were turned in to the Regimental Museum and known as the Keep Yard Barracks collectively with the other eighteenth-century barracks around the Yard.

Content

This is part of the Volume: PF/DOV Dover Castle, Kent; within the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans And Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

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Keywords

Cloakroom, Storeroom, Toilet, Dining Room, Kitchen, 20th Century Bicycle Shed, Medieval Bailey, 20th Century Office