Volume: Walmer Castle and Gardens, Kent

Description

808 drawings ranging from circa 1730 to 2002. There are a few from circa 1730, and several from around 1741 which show lodgings built in the 1730s. There are quite a number from circa 1874, copies of drawings by architect George Devey who built extra rooms above the gatehouse in the west bastion, in 1874. The rest range from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first-centuries, with large numbers from the 1930s and 1990s, plus a fair amount in the 1910s, 1940s and 1980s.

Across the first half of the twentieth-century, there are many drawings of floor plans, originals and annotated copies, often showing alterations or shaded to show building phases.

There are a number of drawings from the mid-1960s showing improvements to the Granville wing (on the first-floor of the west bastion) and plans dated 1970 to 1971 of a fire detection system.

There is a topographical survey of the castle, its grounds and Castle Meadow dated 1980 and updated in 1994. As installed drawings from 1984 to 1985 show electrical services for lighting and power, a fire alarm system, hot water, gas, heating and a ventilation system for the castle.

Drawings from the 1990s include a survey of the castle's roofs, dated 1993 to 1995, and a photogrammetric survey of the basement to the keep from April 1998. Several photogrammetric correction sheets relating to Menzies Playroom date from 1997 and there are sketches of greenhouses from between 2000 and 2002.

Content

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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