Block No 36 Dining Hall and Tower
BLOCK NO 36
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111756
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Block No 36 Dining Hall and Tower
- Statutory Address:
- BLOCK NO 36
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111756
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Block No 36 Dining Hall and Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLOCK NO 36
- Statutory Address 2:
- DINING HALL AND TOWER
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLOCK NO 36
- Statutory Address:
- DINING HALL AND TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Guston
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 32708 43601
Details
TR 34 SW GUSTON DUKE OF YORKS ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL
5/13 Block no.36
17.6.83 (Dining Hall and Tower)
GV II
Dining hall. 1909 by Sir Henry Tanner. Pebbledashed with red brick dressings and plain tiled roof. Single storey nine bay hall, with tower and low kitchen wings to north.Plinth, buttresses and pilaster strip quoins and wooden modillion eaves cornice to roof with 2 lead cupola air vents. Three large open pedimented projections on main elevation break through eaves level, with keyed and gauged semi-circular mullioned and transomed windows, the central with an apron below,those to left and right with double half-glazed doors with corner hoods. Six mullioned windows high up to eaves. Return elevations with large semi-circular headed windows, the eaves cornice raised up over them, with half glazed doors below. Tall battered tower, each face at the top with a clockface and curving iron balcony, with modillion eaves cornice to lead cupola and flagstaff. Single storey kitchen and service wings to north and east. Interior hall with 9 bay barrel vault with prominent transverse ribs, modillion eaves cornice. Panelled lower walls, seats and benches all original, as are 4 large iron corona lucis.
Listing NGR: TR3270843601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178452
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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