607 sheets relating to the maintenance, management and interpretation of Fort Cumberland, from 1784 to the early 2000s. The material before 1973 relates to the property's occupation by the Royal Marines Artillery; after 1973 it became the responsibility of the Department of the Environment and, later, English Heritage.
The sheets include maps from between 1784 and 1976; ground plans, site and topographic surveys from between 1861 and 1998 (including seven sheets by Plowman Craven & Associates from the mid-1990s and seventeen sheets by Maurice Baguely & Partners from February 1998); deed plans from 1975; plans, sections and elevations (including sectional elevations and rectified photographic elevations) of site buildings and structures for record, maintenance and reconstruction purposes, including the casements, the bastions, the guardhouse, the terraced houses, the M.T. shed, the garage and coach house, the hospital, the wagon shed and the traverse
The water main, plumbing, heating and drainage issues are recorded on several sheets made between 1924 and the 1985. There are several plans relating to electrical supply, generally and to specific buildings, from the 1980s. Security issues such as fencing are covered on various sheets from the 1970s and 1980s.
Two groups of plans, from 1978 (three sheets) and 1980 (sixteen sheets) record buildings scheduled for demolition.
Sixteen sheets represent an incomplete set of plans, maps and elevations from a report prepared for the Directorate of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings (part of the Department of the Environment) in 1982.
Several groups of rectified photographic surveys made by contractors for English Heritage between 1995 and 1998 record the Fort's outer ditch walls, parapet walls and low reveting walls. These surveys comprise two sets by Plowman, Craven and Associates (twelve and ninety-one sheets respectively, from September - November 1995), two sets comprising fifty-nine sheets each by the Downland Partnership from the mid-1990s, and a set of fifty-nine sheets by Atkins AMC from April - June 1998.
Thirty-four sheets represent a rectified photographic survey of aspects of the site and its buildings by Thompson Multimedia for English Heritage, made in May 1999.
Fourteen sheets from June 1999 give detailed elevations of doors in the fort's curtain walls and the main gate passage. Five sheets from September 2001 give details of proposed paths at the Fort.
This is part of the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans and Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive
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